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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins
Age: 45 †
Born: 1844
Born: June 28
Died: 1889
Died: July 8
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London
England
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Giving
Giver
Beauty
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