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William Shenstone

"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."

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"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

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"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."

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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

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"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."

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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."

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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent."

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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."

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"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

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"The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error."

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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

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