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1 " There is great beauty in the world but you will not trip over it with every step. When a man dulls himself to beauty, the world begins to die. "
2 " If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake! "
― Mehmet Murat ildan
3 " But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption. "
― Francine Rivers , A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)
4 " It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, " how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too. "
5 " [Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought. Nevertheless, few are familiar with the many and often bewildering pages of his writings. His Italian works have their place in the history of Italian literature. The Latin works in prose and verse are much more bulky and diffuse, but the few who grapple with them are rewarded by passages of great beauty and eloquence. "
― , Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought
6 " I have always thought of memories as fragments, like colored glass shards in a kaleidoscope. It is the source of great beauty in our lives, yet the cause of such heartache. It remains the bridge between our past and present - it gives weight and dimension to our very existence. "
― Lang Leav , Memories
7 " We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. "
― Dean Koontz , Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas, #5)
8 " Such stories ask us to remember that there are little things in the world around us that we hardly notice but which contain great beauty and strength; that we might learn by taking a closer at places we already thought we knew; that we overlook important knowledge by not asking enough questions of the land around us; that some places in the wilderness are not for us to visit; that there are always small, secret wonders hiding in nature, just out of view. "
― Ari Berk , Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
9 " She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked "
― , Njal's Saga
10 " Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. "
― Francesco Petrarca
11 " I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years. "
12 " There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. "
