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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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
Waldo Emerson
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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Love should make joy but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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