"Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks."
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"What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?"
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"Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly."
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"True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together."
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"True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence."
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"Beauty draws more than oxen."
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"Beauty drawes more then oxen."
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"We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure."
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"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."
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"We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth."
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"Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful."
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"Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life."
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"To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful."
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"All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced."
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"It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours."
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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
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"The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love."
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"A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance."
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"While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact."
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"Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them."
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