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Quote by James Nasmyth
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Fou

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy. – James Nasmyth

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. – Jerry Saltz

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Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Im not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse. – Diane Kruger

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. – Tom Stoppard

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