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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."	Alighieri Dante
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."	Marlene Dietrich
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."	Benjamin Franklin
"Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight."	Terry Goodkind
"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
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."	James Russel Lowell
"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."	John Masefield
"Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without."	John Stuart Mill
"Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naïvety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."	Helen Hayes
"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."	Saint Augustine
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her."	Author Unknown
"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual."	Rune Leknes
"Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions."	I Ching
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Phyllis	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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