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?
To know the pain of too much tenderness
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.
We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
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