Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.
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Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters, p.45, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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