We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Interpretation
Great individuals are often well-read and knowledgeable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that to achieve greatness, one should cultivate a habit of reading. This reflects the idea that reading broadens the mind, provides wisdom, and nurtures the qualities that lead to personal and professional success.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, we expect a great man to be a good reader, emphasizing the importance of education.'
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?
True teaching liberates the student from his teacher.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speech-making. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty
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