Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of thoughts and ideas as seeds that grow into meaningful contributions to the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects on the power of thoughts as a driving force behind actions and dreams. He compares thoughts to seeds, suggesting that just as a sower scatters seeds to cultivate a harvest, individuals should nurture and cultivate their ideas to achieve their aspirations, thereby contributing positively to the world and potentially influencing the souls of others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson puts it, let us go and speed the stars of thought to their shining goals.'
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?
In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'
Memory depends mainly upon myth. Some even occurs in our minds, in actuality or in fantasy; we form it in memory, molding it like clay day after day - and soon we have made out of that event a myth. We then keep the myth in memory as a guide to future similar situations.
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
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