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Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

— John Campbell Shairp

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The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Culture and Religion (1870)

Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Culture and Religion (1870)

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Culture and Religion (1870)

Believe in God, and bid all knowledge speed. Sooner or later the full harmony will reveal itself, the discords and contradictions disappear.

Culture and Religion (1870)

Beauty comes, we know not how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

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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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