It was for beauty that the world was made.
“It was for beauty that the world was made.”
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.
“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and would embrace at last the universal sphere.”
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
“Standing on the bare ground—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”
“There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us.”
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