The world is his who has money to go over it.
Interpretation
Money enables exploration and control over the world.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that those who possess wealth have the opportunity to experience and influence the world more than those who do not. It reflects the idea that financial resources grant individuals the freedom to travel, learn, and engage with diverse cultures and ideas, thereby expanding one's horizons and understanding of life.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of education, one could use this quote to emphasize how financial resources can unlock opportunities for personal growth.
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?
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.
There is therefore no reason to put a limit to evolutionary possibility by taking our present organization or status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature.
I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.
But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.
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