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No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Covenant, Higher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Confusion, Forgiving
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1172, Delphi Classics

Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Self, Foreigners
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.156, Penguin

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Friendship, Reflection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Nature, Latin
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Courage, Money
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.332, Harvard University Press

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Beauty, Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Math, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Beautiful, Pain
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Heaven, Rejection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1531, Delphi Classics

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Science, Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Law, Imperfection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.109, Jazzybee Verlag

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Soul, Flight
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.112, Coyote Canyon Press

If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Grief, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Poetry, Tests
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.227, Harvard University Press

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Respect, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Reality, Self
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Brother, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Power, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.423, Harvard University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Remembrance, Soul
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1329, Delphi Classics

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Truth, Integrity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Power, States
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, second series”, p.128, Harvard University Press

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Children, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Exhilaration, Affection

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