Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that everyone envisions a better version of themselves as a goal to aspire to.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects the idea that individuals often envision their ideal selves, which serves as both a source of inspiration and a motivating force in their lives. This 'angel' symbolizes the aspirations and potential we all see within ourselves, encouraging personal growth and the pursuit of excellence.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech to inspire self-reflection among the audience.
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?
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.
The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground
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