Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
Interpretation
Patience and determination can overcome any obstacle.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of having patience and strength in the face of challenges. It suggests that with these virtues, one can effectively navigate and eventually triumph over life's difficulties, implying that rather than reacting hastily, a careful and steadfast approach leads to success.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in tough times.
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 better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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