Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Travelling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing. At home I dream that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
