• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  - +

   0

Check all quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subjects in these quotes:

1. diamond

Similar authors

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 593
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 102
• Carl Sandburg
  American Poet 88
• Robert Frost
  American poet 86
• Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 73
• W. H. Auden
  American poet 70
• Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat 68
• Ezra Pound
  American poet 60

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations