A thing of beauty is a joy forever
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," Keats wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2010
A Thing of Beauty To the Editors: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
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It is well named, if beauty can confer happiness, and it certainly is a principal ingredient, for has not a poet said "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by W. Hastings Macaulay
The first line of Keats's poem Endymion is "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever!
From Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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