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" I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. "

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" Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. "

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" The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory. "

" The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty. "

" Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. "

Benjamin Disraeli

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" Gorgeous hair is the best revenge. "

" Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. "

" Fast cars like Porsches and Ferraris - they are things of beauty. "

" Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time. "

" Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. "

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" I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good. "

" Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are. "

" Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless. "

" To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in. "

" Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. "

" Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty. "

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Beauty

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" Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. "

" Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. "

" The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. "

" I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. "

" Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying. "

" It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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" If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. "

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. "

" Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person. "

" We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. "

" Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. "

" In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life. "

" The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "

" The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. "