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 I must not say that she was true,
 Yet let me say that she was fair;
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 I must not say that she was true,
 Yet let me say that she was fair;
  And they, that lovely face who view,
   They should not ask if truth be there. 
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
 Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
 The power of beauty I remember yet,
  Which once read more 
 Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
 The power of beauty I remember yet,
  Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. 
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror .
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror .
Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.
Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
 Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
 Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
  Her eyebrow's read more 
 Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
 Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
  Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow,
   Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth,
    Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow,
     As if her veins ran lightning.