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Beauty charms, sublimity moves us, and is often accompanied with a feeling resembling fear, while beauty rather attracts and draws us towards it.

— William Fleming Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical (1857)

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It is a fine observation of Plato in his Laws — that atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding.

Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical (1857)

Atheists are confounded with Pantheists, such as Xenophanes among the ancients, or Spinoza and Schelling among the moderns, who, instead of denying God, absorb everything into him.

Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical (1857)

Moral obligation, being the obligation of a free agent, implies a law, and a law implies a law-giver. The will of God, therefore, is the true ground of all obligation, strictly and properly so called.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence, which is common to all men.

He who is certain, or presumes to say he knows, is, whether he be mistaken or in the right, a dogmatist.

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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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