Love is Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

22 Love is quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s 22 reflections on love blend philosophy with everyday experience. His words invite you to consider love as a force that shapes character and purpose.

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Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

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Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.

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Love is the essence of God…

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

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In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

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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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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most…

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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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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper…

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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire…

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The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with…

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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good…

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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done…

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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because…

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee…

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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,…

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