John Keats famously concluded "Ode on a Grecian Urn" with the lines "Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The King James Bible linked truth and beauty over 200 years before Keats penned his famous lines.
Here's a quick reminder of 100 great phrases from the KJV. There's poetry even when words and phrases are taken out of context.
I suppose it could just be the English accent, but I don't think so.
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