An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Picture a Sunday sermon while snow falls past the window. Nothing the preacher says shows he has ever laughed, wept, married or been cheated. “The snow-storm was real; the preacher merely spectral.” A preacher’s whole job is to turn a lived life into truth.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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