Many Thoughts of Many Minds | Page 7

Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.--SOCRATES.
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty
of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me,
ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.--G.A. SALA.
There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of
woman.--J. PETIT-SENN.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half
married.--OUIDA.
Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with
gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.--RICHTER.
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which,
perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.--RALEIGH.
It is seldom that beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue.
--BACON.
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth.
--SHAFTESBURY.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best
to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as
possible on the dark and the base.--CECIL.
A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages is like a flower
without fragrance, a tree without fruit.--REGNIER.
All orators are dumb, when beauty pleadeth.--SHAKESPEARE.

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.--FREDERIKA BREMER.
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty
cannot supply the absence of good nature.--ADDISON.
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her
beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject
to change.--POPE.
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature;
Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice;
Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more
grateful; Aristotle affirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of
recommendation in the world; Homer, that 'twas a glorious gift of
nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the
gods.--FROM THE ITALIAN.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A shining gloss, that fadeth
suddenly; A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass,
that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost,
faded, broken, dead within an hour. And as good lost is seld or never
found, As fading gloss no rubbing will refresh, As flowers dead lie
wither'd on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress, So
beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain
and cost. --SHAKESPEARE.
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes
loosely flowing, hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than
all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. --BEN
JONSON.
BENEVOLENCE.--Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward
heaven.--BEECHER.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler
property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect but not the
image of God.--HOWELLS.
Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall
in no wise go unrewarded; here, by the testimony of an approving
conscience; hereafter, by the benediction of our blessed Redeemer, and
a brighter inheritance in His Father's house.--BISHOP MANT.
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented
from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the
prayers of others.--COLTON.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. --W.R.
ALGER.
There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as our benevolence.
We should husband our means as the agriculturalist his fertilizer, which
if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop, if over too
small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in weeds.--COLTON.
The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our
esteem; but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections.--FROM
THE FRENCH.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw
a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and
popped it in, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn
costs nothing; but it may sprout into a prodigious bit of timber.
--THACKERAY.
You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil
and twopence.--SYDNEY SMITH.
Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about
doing good.--NEVINS.
Benevolence is not in word and