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Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.

— Thomas Nashe Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600)

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From winter, plague, and pestilence, good Lord, deliver us.

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Evermore mayst thou be canonized as the Nonparreille of impious epistlers.

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The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (1593)

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Summer's Last Will and Testament (1600)

Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day.

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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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