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Ralph Waldo Emerson | faith

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The years teach much which the days never know.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.