Some Passages On Beauty

I Want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

[RIGHT]-- George Macdonald[/RIGHT]


Beautiful faces are those that wear
Whole-Souled honesty printed there.

[RIGHT]- Ellen P. Allerton[/RIGHT]


Beauty comes, we scarce know how,
as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

[RIGHT]- Shairp[/RIGHT]



What is lovely never dies
But passes into other loveliness,
Star dust, or sea-foam, flower or winge'd air.

[RIGHT]-- Aldrich[/RIGHT]



Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses,
Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea,
Alone can flush the exalted consciousness
With shafts of sensible divinity --
Light of the world, essential loveliness.

[RIGHT]- Alan Seeger[/RIGHT]



Who walks with beauty holds inviolate
The guarded secrets of the years to come,
Sees unborn Aprils crowding at the gate
Of living gardens white with petaled plum

[RIGHT]- David Whitehead Hicky[/RIGHT]



It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on Her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

[RIGHT]-- George Santayana[/RIGHT]




My faith in beauty shall not fail Because I fail to understand.

[RIGHT]-- Edmund Gosse[/RIGHT]




Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

[RIGHT]-- George Eliot[/RIGHT]



[CENTER]Euclid Alone[/CENTER]
Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far
away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

[RIGHT]-- Edna St. Vincent Millay[/RIGHT]




Beauty is the flower of chastity.

[RIGHT]- Zeno[/RIGHT]