Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preac…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838, p.334, Harvard University Press
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