It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.61, Harvard University Press
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.61, Harvard University Press

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