The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
Interpretation
Just because many people experience illness doesn't mean we should ignore the concept of health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing health, even in a world filled with sickness. It suggests that our perception of health should not be overshadowed by the prevalence of illness among the populace, encouraging us to maintain hope and strive for well-being regardless of the circumstances around us.
In practice
Using this quote in a health seminar to inspire attendees about maintaining a positive outlook on health.
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?
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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