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If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“It was for beauty that the world was made.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”

Albert Einstein · Ideas and Opinions , 1954 · Primary source

“The stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have I seen so many. I always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but I was sure of it that night.”

Amelia Earhart · Last Flight, 1937 · Primary source

“Beauty and folly are old companions.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The whole scene, the empty beach, the green and blue sea, the naked girl with the strands of fair hair, reminded Bond of something. He searched his mind. Yes, she was Botticelli’s Venus, seen from behind.”

Ian Fleming · Dr. No, 1958 · Primary source

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable 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 · No reliable source

“Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“That Beauty is the normal state, is shown by the perpetual effort of Nature to attain it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Behavior

An exploration of beauty in nature, people and art, considering how form, proportion, character and perception shape aesthetic experience.

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