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"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
"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all."	Heinrich Heine
"To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."	Heraclitus
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation."	Victor Hugo
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."	David Hume
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."	Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"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
"Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will."	William James
"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."	Thomas Jefferson
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."	John Keats
"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while."	Helen Adams Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."	Helen Adams Keller
"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. ... What do you want-an adorable pancreas?"	Jean Kerr
"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."	B. B. King
"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."	Paul Klee
"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."	Dean Koontz
"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within."	Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. B. King	Carol Botwin
Cernuda y Bidon "Luis" Cernuda	Charles Dickens	Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Christian Nestell	Christine Leefeldt	Christopher Darlington Morley
Confucius	Dame Margot Fonteyn	David Hume
Dean Koontz	Donald Robert Perry Marquis	Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Emma Albani	Fran Lebowitz
Francis Bacon	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	George Bernard Shaw
George Eliot	George Linley	Gerard Hargraves
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Helen Hayes	Henry Havelock Ellis	Henry James
Henry Louis Mencken	Henry Miller	Heraclitus
Isak Dinesen	I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Francis Byrnes	James Russel Lowell
Jean Kerr	John Donne	John Keats
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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