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Quotes from The Book of Nature — John Mason Good

1764–1827 England

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Now, happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream and not a stagnant pool.

The Book of Nature (1826)

Taste is that faculty which selects and relishes such combinations of ideas as produce genuine beauty, and rejects the contrary.

The Book of Nature (1826)

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.

The Book of Nature (1826)

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