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"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker." -
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Top 5 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us."
"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Top 5 quotes from Beauty
"Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy."
"Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence."
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
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