Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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