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?
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
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