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?
Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
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