I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Then I said, “I covet truth; Beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.” — 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
Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,… — 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
Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul — 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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
