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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful and pleasant, and do give comfort in all places to all things.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it gives the impression of also being beautiful.

By what toil and fatigue and patience and strife and the beautiful law of growth has all this been wrought? These things have not come of themselves. They could not have occurred except as the great movement for women has brought them out and about. They are part of the eternal order, and they have come to stay. Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

William Winwood Reade

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again,
And let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term
Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm,
Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen;
And one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.

"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true." "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true."

Jonathan Safran Foer

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Chuck Palahniuk

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

Benito Mussolini

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy, a whole heart, and a free mind.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive — you are leaking.

Beautiful... as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Comte de Lautréamont

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury