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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.75, David R. Godine Publisher

Love, and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.35, 谷月社

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.342, Рипол Классик

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

What we call results are beginnings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.49

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

As quoted in "Think", Vol. 4-5, (p. 32), 1938.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Quoted in Moncare D. Conway, The Golden Hour (1862)

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.58, Harvard University Press

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.130, Harvard University Press

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, Modern Library

Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.301, University of Georgia Press

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.364, Library of America