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Thus was beauty sent from heaven--the lovely mistress of truth and good in this dark world. - Mark Akenside A beautiful envelope for mortality, presenting a glittering and polished exterior, the appearance of which gives no certain indication of the real value of what is contained therein. - Mrs. Clara Lucas Balfour What makes woman lovely? Virtue, faith, and gentleness in suffering, an endurance through scorn or trial; then has it the stamp celestial, and is admitted to sisterhood with angels. - John Brent Women are the poetry of the world is the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind. - Francis Hargrave There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. - Jane Porter A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty. - William Makepeace Thackeray Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. - James Thomson (1)
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