"Beauty being the best of all we know……" — Robert Bridges
"Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature."
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21 Quotes by Robert Bridges
Robert Bridges has 21 quotes on this site.
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
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When Death to either shall come - I pray it be first to me.
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My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night.
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Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty…
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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.
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So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not…
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O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind,…
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But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by…
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The lonely season in lonely lands, when fled Are half the birds, and mists lie low, and the sun Is…
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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
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The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as…
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Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the…
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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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