People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Interpretation
Great talents are common, but those who possess balance and symmetry in their abilities are rare.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote highlights the distinction between mere talent and the harmony that comes from balancing various strengths. While many individuals may have impressive skills or gifts, it is the rare person who not only excels in specific areas but also maintains a sense of balance and overall symmetry in their capabilities and character, leading to a more holistic form of excellence.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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?
The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
There is nothing stronger than gentleness.
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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