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“In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“All our science lacks a human side.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality and the most ascending quality.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source• Title: Beauty
• Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Type: Essay
• Publisher: Unknown
• Publication time: 1841
• Link: https://emersoncentral.com/texts/the-conduct-of-life/beauty/
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