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“If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.”

Ifs Art Beautiful Strong Beauty Grace Youth Truth Is Art Is Worthy Thee Grace Of God

Book:The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth

“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

“Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.”

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?”

Age Beauty Keys Lovers Thee Breasts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.”

Ifs Years Lasts Beauty Please Thee Thyself

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.”

Source: Nature and Other Writings

“O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!”

Should Humans Art Dream Beauty Our Lives Casts Thee

Author:Bryan Procter

“Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.”

Beautiful Beauty Thee Gentle Spells Very Beautiful

Author:James Allen

“To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!”