Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Interpretation
Quoting others gives credit to the original idea and acknowledges the impact of their words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of recognizing and attributing ideas to their original creators. When a good sentence is quoted, it not only honors the source but also enhances its value by allowing it to reach a wider audience. The act of quoting connects the past thinker to the present thinker, making the wisdom of one accessible to many.
In practice
During a presentation, you might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson once noted, 'Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it,' to emphasize the value of shared ideas.
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?
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
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