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" Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. "
Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 186
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
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The Midland Naturalist: Journal of the Midland Union of Natural ..., Volume 10

1887 - 340 pages
...who is affected most by Nature is he who is most affected by Art, and as Emerson expresses it : — " The individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility...local and special culture, is the best critic of Art." * There are critics who scarcely answer to this description, but then, they are neither " susceptible...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...made by natural objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art ; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple...critic of art. Though we travel the world over to find tlie beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than...
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Education, Volume 32

1912 - 720 pages
...find and become acquainted with the beautiful things of life — will it pay ? For Emerson tells us ''Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful ; we must farry it with us, or we find it not". Again he says "Thou foolish child, hast thou come over four thousand...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both." "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." But we cannot reconstruct the Hanging Gardens with a few bricks from Babylon. Emerson describes his...
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Famous American Authors

Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
...could read and understand his terse sentences, which became way-marks in thought for a lifetime : — " Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." " Love and you shall be loved ... all mankind loves a lover." Who that has loved, and who has not,...
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Excellent Quotations for Home and School ...

Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, "• I can." The ugh we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this : " Every man I meet is my master in some...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...made by natural objects. In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, — the work of genius. And the individual in whom simple...susceptibility to all the great human influences, overpowers the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel...
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Memoirs of a Millionaire

Lucia True Ames Mead - 1889 - 350 pages
...before, I should have seen nothing. I have verified nothing more thoroughly than Emerson's saying, " Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not." I miss the picturesqueness and the charm of the Old World life. I am surprised to find how shocked...
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Pacific Educational Journal

1889 - 590 pages
...are to a picture, which we are filing to give the advantage of a good light." " Though we travel fe world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we Mil not." " We are apt to be sellish in all our views, In this jostling headlong race, And so to be...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 39

1890 - 772 pages
...give them power to seek and find for themselves ? How ? Emerson says, " Though we search the whole world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." Thus our school-rooms may be beautiful and with so many hearts to carry the beauty it surely must be...
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