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The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson · 11 quotes · Beauty, Has Beens, Admiration

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“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”