"A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated…" — Henry David Thoreau

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• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
• I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able… — Alexis Arguello
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
• People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a… — David Attenborough
• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed… — Chinua Achebe
• The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in… — Saint Augustine
• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of… — Marcus Aurelius
• Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about… — Paul Auster
• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman

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