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?
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn't. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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