A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
Interpretation
Both a fly and a hyena symbolize creatures that cannot be easily controlled or domesticated.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that certain aspects of life, much like nature itself, are inherently wild and unmanageable. Just as a fly flits about freely and a hyena exhibits its unpredictable and instinctual behaviors, there are elements of existence that resist human attempts at control, reflecting the importance of recognizing and accepting the untamed aspects of the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and accepting life's unpredictability.
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?
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity.
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