Herman Melville Quotes About Beauty
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.
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When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
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A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.
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The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.
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The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
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