The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful force that inspires and uplifts people, promoting hope and aspiration.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the admirable qualities of love, suggesting that it inherently seeks elevation and positivity. He contrasts love's uplifting nature with despair, indicating that love encourages individuals to look for the best in themselves and each other, thus fostering hope and aspiration rather than hopelessness.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for a wedding speech to celebrate the power of love in uniting two people.
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 that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being
Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
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