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Many a temptation comes to us in fine, gay colours that are but skin deep.

— Matthew Henry

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Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve the purity of it.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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