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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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