Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Interpretation
Quoting others gives credit to the original idea and acknowledges the impact of their words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of recognizing and attributing ideas to their original creators. When a good sentence is quoted, it not only honors the source but also enhances its value by allowing it to reach a wider audience. The act of quoting connects the past thinker to the present thinker, making the wisdom of one accessible to many.
In practice
During a presentation, you might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted, 'Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it,' to emphasize the value of shared ideas.
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?
It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.
Donβt worry about achieving. Donβt worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
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