1. Prophet Muhammad - “Muhammad said, 'That person will not enter Paradise who hath one atom of pride in his heart.' And a man present said, 'Verily, a man is fond of having good clothes, and good shoes.' Muhammad said, 'God is Beauty and delighteth in the beautiful; but pride is holding man in contempt.'”

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2. Oscar Wilde - “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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3. The Bible - “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

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4. Proverb - “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

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5. Proverb - “Beauty is a fading flower.”

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6. Proverb - “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

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7. Proverb - “If you have two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a lily.”

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8. Proverb - “Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.”

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9. Proverb - “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”

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10. Zimmermann - “Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.”

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11. William Butler Yeats - “I heard the old, old men say 'All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.'”

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12. Ella Wheeler Wilcox - “Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod, And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod.”

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13. Josiah Wedgwood - “Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufactures.”

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14. Oscar Wilde - “Beauty is a form of genius—is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.”

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15. Unknown - “Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”

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16. Unknown - “The average girl would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.”

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17. Unknown - “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.”

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18. Lily Tomlin - “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.”

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19. Thucydides - “Two translations: For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness.”

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20. Henry David Thoreau - “The perception of beauty is a moral test.”

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21. Tom Stoppard - “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”

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22. Baruch Spinoza - “I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”

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23. Sophocles - “In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.”

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24. Richard Brinsley Sheridan - “Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”

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25. George Bernard Shaw - “Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

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