There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Interpretation
Love, knowledge, and beauty are limitless and cannot be measured by excess.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the true values of love, knowledge, and beauty transcend conventional boundaries and limitations. Unlike material possessions or achievements, these profound aspects of life do not have a surplus; they are infinite in potential and can continuously enrich our lives without decline.
In practice
During a speech on the importance of arts and education, one could reference this quote to emphasize the boundless nature of creativity.
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?
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces β and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper β love her, love her, love her!
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