“ A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing… ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ”
- Sara Teasdale- Copy
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“ To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life. ”
- Rachel Carson- Copy
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“ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ”
- Rachel Carson- Copy
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“ Moody and withdrawn, the lake unites a haunting loveliness to a raw desolateness. ”
- Dale Morgan- Copy
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“ I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist. ”
- William Gilbert- Copy
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“ Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ”
- George Washington Carver- Copy
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“ Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ”
- George Jean Nathan- Copy
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“ Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy… ”
- Helen Hayes- Copy
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“ Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. ”
- Henry Van Dyke- Copy
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“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
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