...in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hubakkuk 2:20. (This recalls Emerson: "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching." Self-Reliance.) 7 My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves....

...not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." He added, "I like the silent church before the service begins better than any preaching." Intuition was a better guide to truth than complex theological doctrines.76 Emerson denied the authority...

...docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is the soul admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it...

...Verstilling, privé, geheim, veilig, onaantastbaar... De Engelse filosoof Ralph Waldo Emerson bekende eens: 'I like the silent church before the service begins,...any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the person looks, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!' Veilig binnen, glans van buiten Een sanctuary...

...secret, safe, sacrosanct... The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once confessed the following: 7 like the silent church before the service begins,...any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the person looks, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!' Safe on the inside, shiny on the outside...

...of Scott, 1839 Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. ~ Carlyle ~ I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 ~ Essays, First Series, 1841 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality,...