As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their cr… - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet.

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Alternative Names: R. W. Emerson • Waldo Emerson

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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

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