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• "Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier
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• "The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away."
  By: Edwin Percy Whipple
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• "The yielding marble of her snowy breast."
  By: Edmund Waller, On a Lady Passing Through A Crowd of People
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• "And as pale sickness does invade Your frailer part, the breaches made In that fair lodging still more clear Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."
  By: Edmund Waller, A la Malade
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• "Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person. [Lat., Gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 344)
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• "Trust not too much to beauty. [Lat., Nimium ne crede colori.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Eclogae (II, 17)
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• "Even virtue is more fair when it appears in a beautiful person."
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
  By: Ralph Venning, Orthodoxe Paradoxes--The Triumph of Assurance (p. 41)
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• "Affect not to despise beauty, no one is freed from its dominion; but regard is not a pearl of price, it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might."
  By: Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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• "The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth."
  By: Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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• "Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self."
  By: James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 209)
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• "Whose form is as a grove Hushed with the cooing of an unseen dove."
  By: Francis Thompson, Manus Animam Pinxit (st. 3)
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• "Whose body other ladies well might bear As soul,--yea, which it profanation were For all but you to take as fleshy woof, Being spirit truest proof."
  By: Francis Thompson, Manus Animam Pinxit (st. 3)
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• "How should I gauge what beauty is her dole, Who cannot see her countenance for her soul, As birds see not the casement for the sky? And as 'tis check they prove its presence by, I know not of her body till I find My flight debarred the heaven of her mind."
  By: Francis Thompson, Her Portrait (st. 9)
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• "Beauty is a delightful prejudice."
  By: Theocritus
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