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?
The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.
I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
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