"The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on."
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"Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last."
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"Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams."
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"If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God."
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"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."
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"All high beauty has a moral element in it."
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"We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature."
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"Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love."
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"It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
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"Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries."
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"Culture opens the sense of beauty."
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"Beauty rests on necessities."
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"Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?"
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"Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance suppose The selfsame power that brought me there brought you."
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem."
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"The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue."
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"It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm."
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"We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true."
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"For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe."
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"Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again."
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