#beauty

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#constant #ugliness #variable

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. ↗

— Whitney Houston

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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#become #being #better #good #i

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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