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When nature's happiest touch could add no more,
Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face.

— William Julius Mickle

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None but a poet can translate a poet.

The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem (1776)

The best of parents blest my younger days;
What others teach with frowns, they taught with praise.

For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';
There's little pleasure in the house
When our gudeman's awa'.

The Mariner's Wife (1769)

The present moment is our ain,
The neist we never saw!

The Mariner's Wife (1769)

But are ye sure the news is true—
And are ye sure he's weel?
Is this a time to think o' wark?—
Ye jades, fling by your wheel!

The Mariner's Wife (1769)

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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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