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?
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I've had a crush on him since I was a teenager.
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.
But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.
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