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William Congreve

"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

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"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"All that is beautiful can only be felt."

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"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."

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"The shades of colours are splendid."

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Amber Hurdle

"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."

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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."

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

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Amber Hurdle

"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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"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."
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"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."
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"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."
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"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
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"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."
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