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O let me meet my days with quiet grace
So all who gaze on me may truly say:
"Lo, there is one who walked in Beauty's way!"

— Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff

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More quotes by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff

You, Beloved, are the silvery lake shimmering in the desert of my youth.

The Book of Love (1917)

Love,—the shining goal
Of every human soul.

That vast, beneficent Eternity
Where all things lovely pass to when they die.

Feminism is a rebellion against the ruthless tyranny of the male, an attempt to dethrone his autocratic rule and revert to a more natural sexual equality.

There is a little place in me
That cries like any child,
To be as forest things are, free,
Lonely, and strange and wild!

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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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