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Deemest thou, labour
Only is earnest?
Grave is all beauty,
Solemn is joy.

— William Watson Lacrymæ Musarum and Other Poems (1893)

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Sea that breakest for ever, that breakest and never art broken.

The Father of the Forest and Other Poems (1895)

Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems (1890)

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

The stars of heaven are free because
In amplitude of liberty
Their joy is to obey the laws.

Lacrymæ Musarum and Other Poems (1893)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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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.

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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