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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, or wingëd air.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.

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A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

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There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

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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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