Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty will not come at the call of the legislature.... It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson

Les promesses de ce monde sont pour la plupart de vains fantômes.

Par Ralph Waldo Emerson -1870
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