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1. “A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”

Michelangelo

Missed Beauty, Sensory Loss, Pain, Beauty, Hear, See

2. “A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.”

Herman Melville

Beautiful Queen, Mary Stuart, Queen Woman, Queen, Woman, Beauty

3. “A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

Simone Weil

Beauty Perception, Mirror Truth, Self-Image, Perception, Beauty, Reality

4. “A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty, Irony, Perception, Health, Stereotype

5. “A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”

Henry David Thoreau

Leisure, Patience, Time, Beauty, Simplicity

6. “A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Transience, Beauty, Connection, Irony, Nature

7. “A charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld, – The lady dare not lift her veil For fear it be dispelled. But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, – Lest interview annul a want That image satisfies.”

Emily Dickinson

Hidden Beauty, Veiled Charm, Desired Mystery, Love, Beauty, Fear

8. “A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.”

Emily Dickinson

Color, Nature, Silence, Emotion, Solitude, Beauty

9. “A creature not too bright or good For human nature’s daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.”

William Wordsworth

Human Nature, Simple Sorrows, Emotions Life, Love Tears, Beauty, Imperfection

10. “A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.”

Toni Morrison

Life Beauty, Nature Perspective, Emotional Resilience, Beauty, Perspective, Resilience

11. “A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.”

Toni Morrison

Dreams, Perception, Fear, Beauty, Life, Illusion

12. “A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Beauty, Appreciation, Age, Passion, Human Nature

13. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty, Social Strategy, Success, Appearance, Gender Dynamics

14. “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

John Steinbeck

Light, Change, Awakening, Beauty, Fear, People

15. “A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever.”

Marilyn Monroe

Romance, Beauty, Luxury, Love, Feminine charm

16. “A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Beauty, Reflection, Depth, Self

17. “A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment.”

Toni Morrison

Racial Identity, Unrealistic Beauty, Social Injustice, Identity, Beauty, Injustice

18. “A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.”

Sylvia Plath

Innocence, Beauty, Simplicity, Self-healing, Vulnerability, Joy

19. “A lonely impulse of delight.”

William Butler Yeats

Lonely Impulse, Moment Of Joy, Solitary Happiness, Emotion, Beauty, Reflection

20. “A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Struggle, Beauty, Growth, Challenges, Resilience

21. “A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.”

Voltaire

Love Trouble, Beauty, Relationships, Fortune, Humor, Influence

22. “A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Virtue, Beauty, Heart, Mind, Character

23. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.”

Roald Dahl

Positive Thinking, Inner Beauty, Thought Influence, Positivity, Beauty, Thoughts

24. “A picture’s beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.”

Marcel Proust

Picture, Beauty, Independent Art, Subjective Appeal, Artistic Value, Visual Interpretation

25. “A primrose by the river’s brim A yellow rose was to him. And it was nothing more.”

William Wordsworth

Yellow Rose, River Brim, Primrose Flower, Nature, Simplicity, Beauty

26. “A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty, Responsibility, Gender Stereotypes, Social Commentary, Irony

27. “A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman are the handsomest two things commonly seen.”

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty, Strength, Nature, Perspective, Life

28. “A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Nature, Sky, Purity, Beauty, Stars, Tranquility

29. “A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.”

Henry James

Nature, Beauty, Memory, Nostalgia, Nobility, Solitude

30. “A sweet face oft hides a sinner’s heart.”

George R. R. Martin

Deception, Beauty, Appearance, Heart, Sinner, Truth

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