"Most works are most beautiful without ornament."
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"All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body."
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"Beauty lives with kindness."
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"Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it."
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"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you."
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"Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm."
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"Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms."
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"We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty."
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"Beauty imposes reverence in the Spring, Grave as the urge within the honeybuds, It wounds us as we sing. Beauty is joy that stays not overlong. Clad in the magic of sincerities, It rides up in a song. Beauty imposes chastenings on the heart, Grave as the birds in last solemnities Assembling to depart."
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"The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life."
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"They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
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"Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful."
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"Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself."
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"There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much."
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"It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young."
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"We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person."
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"Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love."
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"There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers."
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"Beauty is objectified pleasure."
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"The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands."
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