Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By 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.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty without expression is boring.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson -1870
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