If I feel overshadowed and outdone by great neighbors, I can yet love; I can still receive; and he that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves.
即便出色的邻人让我黯然失色、相形见绌,我仍能去爱,仍能去领受;有爱的人,会把自己所爱的伟大化为自身的一部分。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation · Essays: First Series (1841) —