Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The soul preserves beauty.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
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