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“For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.”

Should Beautiful Form Beauty Youth Fairs Perceive

Book:Dialogues of Plato

Source: Dialogues of Plato

“How beautiful the water is! To me 'tis wondrous fair-- No spot can ever lonely be If water sparkle there; It hath a thousand tongues of mirth, Of grandeur, or delight, And every heart is gladder made When water greets the sight.”

Ifs Heart Made Beautiful Water Thousand Fairs Lonely Sight Delight Tongue Spots Grandeur Wondrous Sparkle Mirth

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.”

Made Whole Beautiful Fairs Brave Pleasant Beautiful Thoughts

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.”

“Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines! In the soft light of these serenest skies; From the broad highland region, black with pines, Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise, Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.”

Light Beautiful Black Sky Fairs Gold Slave Hills Paradise Regions Broads Virgins Rosy Peruvians

Author:William C. Bryant

“Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.”

World Country Done Beautiful Realizing Pieces Masters Spring Fairs Seasons Fingers Glorious

Book:Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

“A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.”

Mind Body Light Beautiful Sex Women Wonder Fine Fairs Charm Virtuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.”

Feels Beautiful Friends Equal Fairs Stronger Clever Bribery

Author:Margaret Mead

“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“O how beautiful is morning! How the sunbeams strike the daisies And the kingcups fill the meadow Like a golden-shielded army Marching to the uplands fair.”

Beautiful Morning Fairs Army Strikes Golden Meadows Daisies Sunbeams

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.”

May Beautiful Women Principles Flower Fairs Driven Fixed Streams Breeze Floats Beautiful Women

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.”

Has Beens Truth Beautiful Faces Truth Is Fairs Counterfeit

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury