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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

  John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context

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• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)

• It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

  Winston Churchill1874–1965

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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