#loveliness

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

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British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty. ↗

— H. L. Hunt

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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness. ↗

— Margaret Cho

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