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“The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.”

Stills Ends Love Is Beauty Evidence Essence Attributes Inward Essence Of Beauty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”

“The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.”

Mind Firsts Joy Beauty Discovery Delight Spread Strikes Faculty Inward Cheerfulness

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”

Looks Doe Matter Pain Beautiful Faces Silence Beauty Mystery Stress Tragedy Add Features Inward Symmetry

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.”

Soul Ends Law My Own Beauty Spring Plant Endure Perceive Autumn Trust In God Stable Inward End Times Utility

Book:The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846

Source: The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846

“Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.”

Soul Moments Beautiful Prayer Beauty Awareness Gratitude Breaths Appreciation That Moment Inward Pauses Something Beautiful

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.”

Action Form Beauty Figures Bears Shapes Logic Ugly Inward Elephants Toads

Book:Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers