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“God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.”

Causes Love Is Beauty Our Love God's Love

Book:Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays

Source: Art and Scholasticism with Other Essays

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.”

Source: New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace

“Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Believe Enough Truth Speak Causes Beauty Originality Causality Great Author

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.”

Earth Causes Beauty Regard Instinct Immortal Glimpse Admirable Correspondence Spectacles

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.”

Knows Death Causes Known Beauty Vicious Making Time Inexorable

Book:The essential Robinson

Source: The essential Robinson

“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”

Wells Death Causes Beauty Eternity Manifestation

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”

Kind Moving Causes Beauty

Author:Ani DiFranco

“All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.”

Giving Pain Suffering Causes Beauty Path Safe Novelists Essayists Audacious

Book:The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel

Source: The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel

“Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you're capable, you're loved and you're beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you! You are unique, because there is only ONE of you!”

“Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.”

God Action Causes Natural Beauty Virtue Mark Shining Decent Heroic Bystanders Heroic Acts

Book:The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.”

Desire Causes Beauty Figures Bones Painter Muscles Anatomy Prominence

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.”

Soul Grows Causes Beauty Wings Contemplation

Author:Plato