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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

“Too dear I prized a fair enchanting face: beauty unchaste is beauty in disgrace.”

Faces Beauty Fairs Dear Disgrace Enchanting

Book:The Iliad ...

Source: The Iliad ...

“There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.”

“He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.”

Looks Beauty Goodness Fairs Look Up Good Will

Book:The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography

Source: The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography

“Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.”

Children Song Secret Beauty Sweet Flower Fairs Dawn Subtle Suggestions Strain Meter

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?”

Ifs Mind Form Results Beauty Moral Influence Effects Industry Morality Reflection Fairs Senses Contemplation Delightful

Author:David Hume

“Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.”

White Beauty Tree Hair Red Fairs Golden Smooth Strokes Maids Combs

Author:George Peele

“A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair.”

Beauty Daughter Fairs Tall

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.”

Firsts Stills Seems Eye Beauty Fairs Birthday Anniversary My Birthday 60th Birthday Funny Old Age Birthday Old Birthday Four Seasons Skin Care Young Birthday Eyes And Beauty 50th Wedding Anniversary Classic Beauty

Author:William Shakespeare

“Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.”

Men Race Beauty Hair Draws Fairs Tresses

Book:The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.”

Eye Beautiful Young Fall Beauty Air Flower Fairs Died Dust Queens Wrinkles Brightness Being Beautiful Helen

Author:Thomas Nashe

“Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.”

Christian Faces Beauty Flower Fairs Welcome Handwriting

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes.”

Beauty Fairs Rose Clouds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)