Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
Interpretation
Amidst life's struggles and challenges, there is always a glimmer of hope or beauty.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson reflects the idea that even in the darkest and most unpleasant situations, there is an underlying sense of positivity and beauty that can be found. It suggests that life, with all its difficulties, contains moments of joy and inspiration that can uplift the human spirit, reminding us to look beyond the surface of hardships to discover the 'song' of life that resonates within us all.
In practice
In a speech about perseverance during tough times.
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?
There is no person without a world.
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.
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