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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
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Demades
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Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
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David Hume (1711 - 1776)
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
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Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), Impressions and Comments (1914)
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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
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Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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John Keats (1795 - 1821), Ode on a Grecian Urn
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891), "Moby Dick"
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