The Best Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Love

Find comfort, insight, and inspiration for your journey through love.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson love quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a celebrated American essayist, lecturer, and poet who lived in the 19th century. His Victorian-era thoughts and ideas continue to inspire people, and his quotes are widely used and recognized.

In this article, we’re sharing some of his most prized love quotes, which offer wisdom and insight into the complexities of love, relationships, and the human experience. Whether you are searching for inspiration, comfort, or just a little pick-me-up, these Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes will surely resonate with you.

From Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From Emerson’s Essays: Top Essays

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Love, and you shall be loved.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

From Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From Essays “Love” (1841)

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All mankind love a lover.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

From The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The affirmative of affirmatives… is love.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

From A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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From Essays and Lectures

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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