College Comp IIBeauty Daily

Directions: Choose one quote from those listed below (or find one of your own that you like) and then write a two page response in which you explain how this relates to your personal definition of beauty. Make this essay both personal and engaging. Use spe-cific examples to support your ideas.

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” Oscar Wilde

“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjec-tive.”

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” Confucius

“The difference between pretty and beautiful is-pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.”

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” Dorothy Parker

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein ~

"Beauty and folly are old companions."~Ben Franklin ~

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.~Tolstoy~

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for being~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.  ~Roseanne

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strange-ness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld