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How goodness heightens beauty! (Turlington Christy)
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. (Turlington Christy)
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. (Turlington Christy)
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. (Turlington Christy)
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is whatever gives joy. (Turlington Christy)
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. (Turlington Christy)
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. (Turlington Christy)
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. (Turlington Christy)
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. (Turlington Christy)
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring. (Turlington Christy)
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! (Turlington Christy)
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity. (Turlington Christy)
Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine (Turlington Christy)
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Turlington Christy)
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that. (Turlington Christy)
A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. (Turlington Christy)
Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. (Turlington Christy)
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