An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Faith can’t be handed to you. “It cannot be received at second hand.” What another person says can only prompt you: you find it true in yourself, or you reject it.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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