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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

— Harry Allen Overstreet The Enduring Quest (1931)

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Better a dish of illusion, one might say, and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

The Enduring Quest (1931)

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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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