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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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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.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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