All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Interpretation
Life is a series of experiments, and making more of them leads to improvement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of experimentation in life, suggesting that every experience contributes to our knowledge and growth. By engaging in various experiments, whether in thought, action, or exploration, we refine our understanding and enhance our capabilities, ultimately leading to a richer and more fulfilling existence.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to take risks in their careers.
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?
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
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