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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is sti...more

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We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, whi...more

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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the ci...more

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Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...more

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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

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We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination...more

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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beaut...more

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we will not find it.