Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Sparkle

• 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

• The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Mind, World

• One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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