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Beauty Quotes - Page 62

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

Beauty is a natural superiority.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.41

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

"Listening to the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 15, 2015.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2422, Delphi Classics