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?
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Valid criticism does you a favor.
I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.
Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.
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Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.
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