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Beautiful Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as…
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.…
- A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
- A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a…
- Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
- Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
- Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out…
- The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted…
- Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair…
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a…
- In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty…
- How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can…
- A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
- How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet…
- A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,…
- As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not…
- Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman