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"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!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
Explore more quotes by James Weldon Johnson

"There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it."

"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."

"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."

"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."

"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."

"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
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