Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Interpretation
Speak your truth to inspire hope in others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of expressing authentic truths derived from one's experiences and conscience. By doing so, individuals can uplift and inspire others who may be struggling or in despair, offering them new hope and insights.
In practice
In a motivational speech addressing young adults about following their passions.
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?
Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's an active disengagement.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.
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