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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...more

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world....more

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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul

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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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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

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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 ...