Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
The Rhodora http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/rhodora.htm <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
“If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
The Rhodora
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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