"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."

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"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."

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"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely."

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"There is a beautiful village in every country."

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"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Do you think I'm pretty?He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful."Beautiful?"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache."

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"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"Then, were not summer's distillation leftA liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet."

"Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely."

"All that is beautiful can only be felt."

"If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces,The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces."

"The shades of colours are splendid."

"There is a beautiful village in every country."

"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."

"Do you think I'm pretty?He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful."Beautiful?"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes."

"She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache."

"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."

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"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

"Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode."

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"

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"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."