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Henry Theodore Tuckerman on Beauty

1813–1871 United States

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The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The Optimist (1850)

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an undefinable and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. It may be that this feeling springs from a sense of unattained good, of a perfection of being quite at variance with the present, which the beautiful never fails to suggest.

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