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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.


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THOMAS HOOD Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
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DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that...
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LOUISE BOGAN And the cold marble leapt to life a God.
REV. HENRY HART MILMAN Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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