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Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.37

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.369

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.48, U of Nebraska Press

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.154, Harvard University Press

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.244, Harvard University Press

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

The beautiful is never plentiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.95, University of Missouri Press

Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.98

That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.193, David R. Godine Publisher