Source: Conversation At Midnight
“But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.”
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
“The Eclisse lamp is beautiful to look at because the concepts are in themselves beautiful.”
citation needed
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), The Legion
“The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”
Book II.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest
“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.”
On the subject of criteria he used to judge in The Most Beautiful Tweet contest, Hay Festival 2010[citation needed]
2010s
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.”
Quantum in te crescit amor, tantum crescit pulchritudo; quia ipsa caritas est animae pulchritudo.
Ninth Homily, Paragraph 9, as translated by Boniface Ramsey (2008) Augustinian Heritage Institute
Variant translation:
Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
as translated by H. Browne and J. H. Meyers, The Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers (1995)
Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John (414)
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
Book I : The Beginnings, Ch. II : The Apostolical Vocation Of Saint Mael
Penguin Island (1908)
Context: A beautiful fig-tree raised itself in a hollow of the island and thrust forth its branches far and wide. The inhabitants of the island used to worship it.
And the holy Mael said to them: "You worship this tree because it is beautiful. Therefore you are capable of feeling beauty. Now I come to reveal to you the hidden beauty." And he taught them the Gospel. And after having instructed them, he baptized them with salt and water.
