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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.”

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Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) was a renowned English author, known for his historical works and moral essays. His books, 'The History of the Holy Wars' and 'The History of the Holy Roman Empire', have had a profound impact on later generations. more

“Without habit, the beauty of the world would overwhelm us. We’d pass out every time we saw— actually saw— a flower. Imagine if we only got to see a cumulonimbus cloud or Cassiopeia or a snowfall once a century: there’d be pandemonium in the streets. People would lie by the thousands in the fields on their backs.”

Beauty Flower Spring

Book:Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”

Beauty Standard

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“I can appreciate that he wants to do it himself, but I'm kind of done with prideful men”

Beauty Feminism Beast Lovestory

Book:A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Source: A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/ Beauty, in this world.”

Moments Beauty Never Always

Book:The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world’s desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds fire.”

Beauty

Author:Christina Rossetti

“The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It's a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.”

Beauty Humility Ego Humble Bragging Boasting

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.”

Beauty Faeries Kieran

Book:Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“New but…good,” Evan said, shaking his head. “A good thing.” Helena caught the look that passed between the two men and it was beautiful…the only word she could think of was beautiful. It was love and lust and such a tender expression of care she wondered if they had any clue how lovely it was to see...”

Romance

Book:Faith & Fidelity

Source: Faith & Fidelity

“She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful.”

Beauty Silver Mud Psyche

Book:Till We Have Faces

Source: Till We Have Faces

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