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• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Mean, Understanding

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

  Anthony Marra

  Moments, Unpredictable

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• Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Nature, Flower, Eye

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• I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty.

  Georges Braque

  Beauty, Skills, Natural

  Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, Joanne Greenspun (1980). “Georges Braque”

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• It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear in their fragrance and loveliness. And the month when lovers, subject to the same force which reawakens the plants, feel their hearts open again, recall past trysts and past vows, and moments of tenderness, and yearn for a renewal of the magical awareness which is love.

  Thomas Malory

  Heart, Past, Tree

  Sir Thomas Malory, Keith Baines (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur”

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• When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.

  Harry Hay

  Mother, Pain, Laughter

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• Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

  Saint Augustine

  Stars, Moon, Thinking

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• God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

  Anna Hempstead Branch

  Beautiful, Stars, Clouds

  Anna Hempstead Branch, “Songs For My Mother”

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• Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.

  David James Duncan

  Summer, Beach, Ignorance

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press

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• It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

  Ellen G. White

  Love Is, Desire, Firsts

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV”, p.1679, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A bird painted not with beauty but with all the dirt and wounds collected in a long hard life, in battle, in love, with torn feathers and a busted leg and a chipped beak and one of its eyes half closed; and yet a bird of deeper loveliness for all of that.

  Jeff Noon

  Eye, Long, Bird

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• Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jesus, Moving, Self

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.32, Harvest House Publishers

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Grace, Skins

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• Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Daughter, Gratitude, Justice

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• loveliness is infernally sad.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.748, Delphi Classics

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• I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

  Julie Andrews

  Believe, And Love, Sound

  Photoplay, September 1973.

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• There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Risk, Suffering

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• Spirit, Patience, Gentleness, All that can adorn and bless Art thou let deeds, not words, express Thine exceeding loveliness.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Deeds, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.452

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• The shadow of a cornstalk on the ground is lovely, but it is no denial of its loveliness to see as one looks on it that it is telling the time of day, the position of the earth and the sun, the size of our planet and its shape, and perhaps even the length of its life and ours among the stars.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Lovely, Shadow

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beauty, Spells

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• The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Lap, Looks

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

  Jane Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.210

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