Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Taken Quotes

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

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Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.

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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.

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Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.

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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

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