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Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.
(Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet, critic. "Thιophile Gautier," part IV (1859).)
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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
(Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic. Originally published as Der Zauberberg, Fischer (1924). The Magic Mountain, ch. 4, p. 159, trans. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, The Modern Library, McGraw-Hill (1955).
Settembrini's credo.)
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I see them all so excellently fair,
I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Dejection; an Ode (l. 37-38). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
(Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. poet. I, Too (l. 16-18). . .
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. (1959) Vintage Books.)
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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
(Horace Walpole (1717-1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 52, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).
Originally written in 1787.)
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All heiresses are beautiful.
(John Dryden (1631-1700), British poet, dramatist, critic. Albanat, in King Arthur, act 1, sc. 1 (1691).)
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O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
(Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), U.S. author. America the Beautiful (l. 17-20). . .
Favorite Poems Old and New. Helen Ferris, ed. (1957) Doubleday & Company.)
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Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Yankee in Canada" (1853), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 20, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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