"It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at."
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"O world, as God has made it! All is beauty."
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"I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's."
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"There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body."
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"... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell."
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"It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?"
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"As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty."
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"Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty."
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"The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions."
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"Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens."
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"One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus."
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"Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it."
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"Real beauty is my aim."
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"Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you."
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"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."
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"I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!"
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"It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists."
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"Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty."
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"A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years."
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"Great is the strife between beauty and modesty."
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