Quote by Lafcadio Hearn
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chi

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. – Lafcadio Hearn

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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. – Lafcadio Hearn

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respect
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. – Charles Baudelaire

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The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and its very physical. I had headaches every day for two months. – Hugh Jackman

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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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