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Walter Raleigh1552–1618

Remember if you 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.

Walter Raleigh on beauty

Often credited to Emily Dickinson

Beauty Marriage

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Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh’s Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
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Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Letter to Sir Robert Cecil (10 May 1593)
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
- Truth & Lies
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
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It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
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