~ Beauty is in the eye of it's beholder.
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~ It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ~
~ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ~
~ The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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~ Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ~
~ People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
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~ Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example. ~
~ The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty. ~
~ Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all1
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~ Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~
~ Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be. r ~
~ The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~