Quote by Miriam Beard
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an e

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. – Miriam Beard

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Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. – Miriam Beard

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry. – Christopher Wren

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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. – Socrates

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. – W. Somerset Maugham

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