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A Right Mind, and Generous Affection, [has] more Beauty and Charm, than all other Symmetrys in the World besides.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

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'Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule?

Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

Day's Collacon : An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884)

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.

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

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

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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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