Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Interpretation
Everyone has moments of clarity and insight where they express themselves powerfully.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes that each person, at least once in their life, experiences a moment where they communicate their thoughts effectively and meaningfully. This suggests that inherent eloquence exists within everyone, and we should recognize that even the most ordinary individuals can have extraordinary insights at pivotal moments.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire students during a speech class, encouraging them to find their voice.
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?
Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
One must lose one's life to find it.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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