How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
Which is why he is 62 and as fit as he is.
At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. But no one knew this but me. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.