A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
Interpretation
Individuals need to balance their personal self with their social persona.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that a person has both a private side and a public side, and it is essential to navigate between these two aspects of one's identity. The 'horses' symbolize the differing roles and responsibilities that a person has in their personal life versus societal expectations, emphasizing the importance of harmonizing these elements to live a fulfilling life.
In practice
During a keynote speech about personal branding in professional environments.
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?
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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