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  • They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train. -- Charles Godfrey Leland
  • Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. -- George Washington Carver
  • My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. -- Michelangelo
  • Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. -- George Jean Nathan
  • Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -- John Keats
  • The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. -- John Keats
  • Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. -- Alfred Sisley
  • Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. -- Sara Teasdale
  • Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. -- Margaret Cho
  • Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation. -- Edward Abbey
  • She is loveliness itself. -- Jane Austen
  • Spend all you have for loveliness. -- Sara Teasdale
  • This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. -- H. L. Hunt
  • What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness. -- George MacDonald
  • For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. -- Evelyn Underhill
  • British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. -- Emma Thompson
  • What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. -- Oscar Wilde
  • One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. -- Mary Ritter Beard
  • Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. -- Thomas Hardy
  • When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place. -- Zoe Sugg
  • Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. -- William Henry Hudson
  • I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. -- Adeline Knapp
  • Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night. -- Sara Teasdale
  • The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. -- John Strachan
  • I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired. -- Alison Goldfrapp
  • A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. -- John Keats
  • Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be. -- Sara Teasdale
  • To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. -- Archibald MacLeish
  • So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. -- Bayard Taylor
  • As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy. -- James E. Faust
  • Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. -- George MacDonald
  • We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease. -- Dorothea Dix
  • Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. -- Henry Van Dyke
  • loveliness is infernally sad. -- Virginia Woolf
  • April's rare capricious loveliness. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
  • Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness. -- Anthony Marra
  • Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness -- Galway Kinnell
  • I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. -- John Muir
  • Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. -- Amiri Baraka
  • The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. -- Jane Porter
  • If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. -- Therese of Lisieux
  • There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
  • The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness... -- Khalil Gibran
  • What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now. -- Geneen Roth
  • All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world. -- James Joyce
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  • Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. -- Theodore Parker
  • I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness. -- William Butler Yeats
  • All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed .... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. -- John Ruskin
  • No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. -- Samuel Rutherford
  • There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. -- Homer
  • Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn. -- Christina Rossetti
  • To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within. -- Sharon Salzberg
  • One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness -- Miriam
  • One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness." -- Mary Ritter Beard
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  • The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. -- Caryll Houselander
  • But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes. -- John Donne
  • Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness. -- Ray Milland
  • The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls. -- Evelyn Underhill
  • The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible. -- Herman Melville
  • faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within. -- Anna Katharine Green
  • Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness -- Jonathan Edwards
  • God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words. -- Anna Hempstead Branch
  • Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars. -- Saint Augustine
  • The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness. -- Josephine Winslow Johnson
  • To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy. -- Frederick Delius
  • Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character. -- Theodore Parker
  • What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.... -- Edward Abbey
  • I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty... -- Georges Braque
  • If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much? -- Geneen Roth
  • Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood. -- William Alexander Percy
  • Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty. -- Robert Boyle
  • He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required -- Marilynne Robinson
  • It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core. -- Thomas Moore
  • There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. -- Robert Goolrick
  • There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness. -- Margaret E. Barber
  • We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities. -- Spencer W. Kimball
  • through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth -- Isak Dinesen
  • Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness. -- Alan Seeger
  • Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- L.M. Montgomery
  • His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- L.M. Montgomery
  • The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture. -- Winifred Holtby
  • While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • ... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace. -- Daphne du Maurier
  • Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Don't they feed you at Navarre house?""They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness." -- Chloe Neill
  • She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light. -- Hartley Coleridge
  • Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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