Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
Interpretation
Consideration fosters wisdom and strengthens our sense of duty.
In this quote, Emerson emphasizes the importance of consideration as a fundamental element that nurtures wisdom and promotes the fulfillment of our responsibilities. By treating others and our duties with careful thought and reflection, we create an environment where wisdom can flourish and where we can find the strength to meet our obligations effectively.
In practice
You could use this quote during a motivational speech at a seminar on leadership.
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?
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
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