All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Interpretation
Life is a series of experiments, and making more of them leads to improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of experimentation in life, suggesting that every experience contributes to our knowledge and growth. By engaging in various experiments, whether in thought, action, or exploration, we refine our understanding and enhance our capabilities, ultimately leading to a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to take risks in their careers.
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?
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
Money is congealed energy, and releasing it releases life's possibilities.
The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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