Beauty Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

156 Beauty quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson writes that a beautiful soul lives in a beautiful world. He notes that we are surrounded by beauty, yet our eyes often miss its true shape. He also says art and redemption can warm a cold heart and restore lasting beauty.

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Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

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Accuracy is essential to beauty.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

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The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

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“Then I said, “I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

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“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

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I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity…

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The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in…

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all…

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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That…

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the…

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How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to…

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations…

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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet…

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No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression…

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the…

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A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so…

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“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why…

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“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the…

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

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“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have…

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“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world…

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