 Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being...  Select Essays and Poems - Page 96by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
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...care? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote one of the loveliest answers to these questions in The Rhodora: . . .Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, That if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. . . 216... | |
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...ask for more than meets the eye and touches the heart in that exquisite little fancy? 'Sure, if our eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.' But nothing about our author delights us so much as the quietness — the apparent leisure, with which... | |
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...NOVEMBER) Today I will make room to be refreshed and restored by the healing power of music. Year 7:2 If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, IN DAYS OF HEALING, DAYS OF JOY (5 JUNE) If we work so hard and are so busy that... | |
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