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Quote by Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire

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