Can Beauty be a function of Happiness?

 "Beauty is the index to the whole nature of Being" - Thomas Troward

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"Beauty is the promise of happiness" - Stendhal

Beauty is a function of Happiness...

… as looking at things, which we find beautiful, makes us happy.

"Having learnt how Nature works - how God works - we must begin to work in like manner, and never consider any work complete until we have carried it to some final outcome of Beauty, whether material, intellectual, or spiritual." - Thomas Troward 

So, what is Beauty to you?