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The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty, Beautiful
John Greenleaf Whittier (1854). “Poems”, p.323

Beauty is its own excuse.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty, Excuse
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.112

Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as we may upon its colors and outlines, what is it but an intellectual abstraction, after all? The heart feels a beauty of another kind; looking through the outward environment, it discovers a deeper and more real love-liness.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty, Real, Heart
John Greenleaf Whittier (1866). “Literary recreations and miscellanies”, p.366

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty, Spells, Loveliness

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty, God, Color
John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.404

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