I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834
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