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“Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.”

Firsts Art Shows Lasts Process Beauty Grace Color Sight Method Logical Curves Formation Symmetrical

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.”

Two Soul Eye Beautiful Form Beauty Vision Sight Casts Contemplating Mould Beautiful Soul

Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

“Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!”

Ifs Dies Beauty Mercy Sight Crowds Thee

Book:Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

Source: Poems: including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts

“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”

Men Should Beautiful Asks Answers Beauty Objects Sight Blind Maps Delighted Blind Man Beautiful Objects

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go”

Beautiful Beauty Aspect Sight

Book:Great Speeches by Mark Twain

Source: Great Speeches by Mark Twain

“A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason. And as this beauty is found in the shape and form of corporeal things, so also is there analogous to it a beauty of another kind, an order, a symmetry, and comeliness in the moral world. And as the eye perceiveth the one, so the mind doth by a certain interior sense perceive the other, which sense, talent, or faculty, is ever quickest and purest in the noblest minds.”

Source: Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers

“What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?”

Firsts Language Powerful Beauty Sight Silent Proof Love At First Sight What Is Love Physiognomy

Author:Mary C. Ames

“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.”

Needs Seems Eye Justice Perfect Beauty Vision Seeing Picks Shots Garden Sight Cameras Photographer Ugly Naked Ease Lenses Periphery Naked Eyes

Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”

Humans Truth Sound Beauty Poverty Mystery Perfection Sight Human Life Contemplation Imperfect Succession Sight And Sound

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”

May Soul Eye Winning Beauty Sight Strikes Vain Merit Charm Pretty Eyes

Author:Alexander Pope

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

Firsts Wells Looks Has Beens Humor Funny Three House Beauty Sight

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.”

Men Firsts Given Natural Cities Beauty Sight Blind Senses Cease Phenomenon Prisoner Blind Man Dwellers

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.”

Eye Loses Beauty Sight

Author:Jean Toomer

“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

“I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.”

Knows Men Christian Beauty Saws Sight Creator God Love Lit

Author:John Climacus

“By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.”

Self Beauty Sight Idols

Author:Rumi

“Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.”

World Humans Made Soul Feelings Happens Order Human Beings Love Is Beauty Universal Sight Rate Flesh Permission Illusory Beauty Of The World Transference

Author:Simone Weil