There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
Interpretation
Strong individuals can create opportunities for themselves and others in society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects on the nature of leadership and influence within society, suggesting that those who possess strength of character and intellect will find their place among the best thinkers. Furthermore, such individuals not only carve out their own paths but also open doors for others, enriching the collective thinking of their community.
In practice
In a motivational speech about leadership at a corporate event.
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?
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.” If you know how to use this key, the adversary cannot hold you.
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