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?
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Don't weep, insects -- Lovers, stars themselves, Must part.
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.
And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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