Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.267, Penguin
Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You … ▶
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our … ▶
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.42, Courier Corporation
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated), p.3208, Delphi Classics

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