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Quote by Christina Rossetti
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. – Christina Rossetti

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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank. – Christina Rossetti

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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. – Christina Rossetti

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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. – Robert Browning

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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