A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that a beautiful woman captivates and inspires intense emotions in those who admire her.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote implies that the beauty of a woman is not just in her physical appearance, but it evokes a profound emotional response that encourages admirers to act nobly or aspire for greatness. The phrase 'drives all beholders nobly mad' suggests that beauty can lead to a form of madness that compels admiration and noble deeds, highlighting the powerful effect that beauty has on the human spirit.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a wedding to express the beauty of the bride.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.
No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.
Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.
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