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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
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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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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