For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Interpretation
Every gain comes with a cost or sacrifice.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that for any positive advantage or benefit we gain in life, there is an inherent cost associated with itβoften metaphorically referred to as a 'tax.' This can imply that nothing valuable comes without effort or trade-offs, and it prompts us to consider the balance between gain and loss in our pursuits.
In practice
During a seminar about entrepreneurship, one might say this quote to highlight the investments needed for success.
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?
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.
The Almighty has His own purposes.
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