Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Beauty

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Imagination

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.478, Рипол Классик

• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Philosophical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

• Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Grace, Bait

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

• To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Spiritual

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

• We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Mean, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

• If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Beauty, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

• To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Beauty, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

• If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

• Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Balance, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

• The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Perfect, Lines

• Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Stars, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.177, Shambhala Publications

• Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, God, Bystanders

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.21, North Atlantic Books

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Blessed, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

• Culture opens the sense of beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

• Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Let Him Go, Carrie

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

• Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Degrees

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mad

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America

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