“In beauty faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen on snow.”
Fable XI, "The Peacock, Turkey, and Goose"
Fables (1727)
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English poet and playwright 1685–1732Related quotes
“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.”
Parliament Hill Speech, Ottawa, Canada, (2 June 2009)
2000s
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 126
“The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.”
Chanson without Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.”
Idyll 6, line 19; translation by Richard Polwhele, from The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with the Elegies of Tyrtæus (1810) p. 36.
Idylls
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 299
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo.
Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
Variant translation:
Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers (1995)
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)