Beauty

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  • In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.
        William Lyon Phelps   Best?
  • The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
        George Santayana   Best?
  • You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
        Orison Swett Marden   Best?
  • To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
        Alfred A. Montapert   Best?
  • When you cease to dream you cease to live.
        Malcolm S. Forbes   Best?
  • In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
        James Allen   Best?
  • If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
        Upham   Best?
  • Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
        Francis Quarles   Best?
  • Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
        Mere   Best?
  • Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
        George Bancroft   Best?
  • What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.
        Vicomte de Valmont   Best?
  • 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.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
        Peter Mere Latham   Best?
  • Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
        Richard Byrd   Best?
  • The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
        Arnold Bennett   Best?
  • The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
        Sir Hugh Walpole   Best?
  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • It may be that those who do most, dream most.
        Stephen Butler Leacock   Best?
  • Nothing happens unless first a dream.
        Carl Sandburg   Best?
  • There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
        Robert F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Good taste is always an asset.
        Rudy Bakalov   Best?
  • There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
        Jean Jacques Rousseau   Best?
  • If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
        Carl Schurz   Best?
  • Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
        Maxims of Ptahhotep   Best?
  • Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
        Sir Walter Raleigh   Best?
  • Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
        Francis Quarles   Best?
  • To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
        Anatole France   Best?
  • Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
        Andre Gide   Best?
  • Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
        Dag Hammarskjold   Best?
  • Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
        Anthelme Brillat-Savarin   Best?
  • The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
        Evenius   Best?

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