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"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
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"Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other."

"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."

"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."

"Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue."
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"Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark."

"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."

"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."

"Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful."

"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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