Tuesday, December 3, 2013

BEAUTY

Excerpts from Nature
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
First published: 1836

Beauty:


. . . We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself...


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