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Do not beautify your appearance, but be beautiful in your way of life.

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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Time is wisest because it discovers everything to light.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Water is the first principle of everything.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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