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• Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Believe, I Believe, Goodness

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

  John Muir

  Nature, Cheer, Garden

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America

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• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  Emily Dickinson

  Sight, Crowds, Mercy

  Emily Dickinson (1955). “Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts”, Belknap Press

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• The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Tests

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.218, Booklassic

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• Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

  Aime Cesaire

  Revelations, Born Again, Ancestor

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Falling In Love, Eye, Reality

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• It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Charm, Unconscious

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• Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Kindness, Law, Perfect

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 20,

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• To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Girl, Use, Fortune

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• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beautiful, Party, Unattractive

  "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

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• Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

  Eudora Welty

  Mean, World, Way

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.27, Modern Library

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• While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Beautiful, Song, Air

  Octave Mirbeau (1911). “The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid”

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• He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wings, Dread, Unforeseen

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Beautiful, Sweet, Sadness

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• After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

  Timothy Leary

  Rest Of Your Life, Wonder, Revelations

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.83, Ronin Publishing

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• Beauty draws more than oxen.

  George Herbert

  Oxen, Draws

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168

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• Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.

  Pamela Anderson

  Track, Physicians, Relief

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• An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.

  Austin O'Malley

  Quality, Essentials, Aloofness

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• What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3376, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty can never really understand itself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.79, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Creation, Trademarks

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• For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

  Edmund Spenser

  Blood, Gentle, Knows

  Edmund Spenser (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is objectified pleasure.

  George Santayana

  Pleasure

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• Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.366

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