America means opportunity, freedom, power.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the core values associated with America, emphasizing its promise of opportunities and freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote encapsulates the essence of the American dream, where the ideals of opportunity, freedom, and power converge to create a unique environment for individuals to thrive. It suggests that America is not just a geographic location but a symbol of hope and potential that encourages personal and collective growth.
In practice
This quote would be fitting in a speech about the American dream during a graduation ceremony.
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 great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
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