"Beauty is the virtue of the body as……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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