"The Greek epigram intimates that the force..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”
“In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.”
“The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.”
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“He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.”
“My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."”
“Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.”
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“What light through yonder window breaks?”
“A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?”
“O rose, who dares to name thee?No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.”