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Beautiful Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

66 Beautiful quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A beautiful soul lives in a beautiful world, according to Emerson. He writes that simple, natural beauty is essential, and that helping others also lifts ourselves. He also celebrates the wilderness as a place where uncontained, immortal beauty can be felt.

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

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

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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

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The beautiful is never plentiful.

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

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

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A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world.

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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

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Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”

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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

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Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair…

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For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things,…

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A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty…

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Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of…

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Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it…

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And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is…

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Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and…

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

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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,…

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In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because…

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Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing…

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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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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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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am…

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

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Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

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“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves”

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A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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