Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Love
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In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Give all to love; Obey thy heart.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.
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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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