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All things of beauty are not theirs alone
Who hold the fee; but unto him no less
Who can enjoy, than unto them who own,
Are sweetest uses given to possess.

— John Godfrey Saxe

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More quotes by John Godfrey Saxe

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

'Tis well to borrow from the good and great;
'Tis wise to learn; 'tis God-like to create!

The Library: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

The Library; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

'T is wise to learn; 't is God-like to create.

"God bless the man who first invented sleep!"
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

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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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