Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
Interpretation
Love is a profound force that reflects the true value of humanity.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the seriousness and depth of love, portraying it as a divine essence that transcends triviality. He suggests that love should be understood as a fundamental aspect of human worth and dignity, rather than something to be taken lightly or casually.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the importance of love in marriage.
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?
Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
How easy love makes fools of us.
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
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