“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry
“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.”
On Lord Bacon (1837)
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