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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty -- Rabindranath Tagore
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature. -- Petronius
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires. -- Charles Dickens
Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit. -- Baldassare Castiglione
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree. -- Fredrika Bremer
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. -- Edward Gibbon
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that? -- Hilary Swank
For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on. -- Gong Li
Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul. -- Shannon L. Alder
Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth. -- Grace Aguilar
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. -- Edmund Spenser
I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. -- Piet Mondrian
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. -- Saint Peter
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one. -- Socrates

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