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To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. - Joanna Baillie Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. - Honore de Balzac In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. - Honore de Balzac Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - George Bancroft Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul. - George Bancroft Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. - Cyrus Augustus Bartol Beauty's choicest mirror is an admiring eye. - James Lendall Basford There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Elder Brother (act III, sc. 5) What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? - Henry Ward Beecher Beauty and grace command the world. - Park Benjamin Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I! - Pierre Jean de Beranger, Qu'elle est jolie Beauty is a possession not our own. - Bion of Smyrna Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart And gives it a new pulse unknown before! - Hugh Blair An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts. - Jacques Benigue Bossuet Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest dis-tinction. - Christian Nestell Bovee Mortal beauty stings while it delights. - Christian Nestell Bovee The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. - Christian Nestell Bovee To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is but one, and the most effectual, of the ways of cultivating an appreciation of the Divine goodness. - Christian Nestell Bovee We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful. - Christian Nestell Bovee Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. - Robert Boyle Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. - Robert Boyle Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree. - Fredrika Bremer One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with. - Helen Gurley Brown The beautiful seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. I) Displaying page 2 of 17 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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