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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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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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The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.

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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.

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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Beauty without expression tires.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Beauty without expression is boring.

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...more

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Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.

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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out...more