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"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them."	Robert Bridges
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."	Alexis Carrel
"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away."	Cernuda y Bidon "Luis" Cernuda
"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing."	Marquis de Sade
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire."	Tibetan Doctrine
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."	John Donne
"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."	George Eliot
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself."	Henry Havelock Ellis
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."	John Erskine
"Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"	Dame Margot Fonteyn
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."	Anne Frank
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."	Kahlil Gibran
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."	Stephen Jay Gould
"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."	Sydney J. Harris
"The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires."	William Hazlitt
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."	David Hume
"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things."	Henry James
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D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Emma Albani	Fran Lebowitz
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George Eliot	George Linley	Gerard Hargraves
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Francis Byrnes	James Russel Lowell
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John Erskine	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Henry Newman
John Masefield	John Stuart Mill	Joseph Addison
Kahlil Gibran	Louisa May Alcott	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford	Marlene Dietrich	Marquis de Sade
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Oscar Hammerstein, II
Pablo Picasso	Paul Klee	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Phyllis	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Buckminster Fuller	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Bridges	Roger Bannister	Rose Elizabeth Bird
Roy R. Gilson	Rune Leknes	Saint Augustine
Simondes of Ceos	Stephen Jay Gould	Sydney J. Harris
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Henry Huxley	Tibetan Doctrine	Ursula K. LeGuin
Van Wyck Brooks	Victor Hugo	Vincent McNabb
William Hazlitt	William James	William Golding
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