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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
 A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
 A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.  
 A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
 A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. 
 The light of love, the purity of grace,
 The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
  The read more 
 The light of love, the purity of grace,
 The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul! 
... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; read more
... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she read more
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your read more
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they read more
My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?