The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that,_x000D_ if you let it alone,_x000D_ it will let you alone.
Interpretation
The Anglican Church's merit lies in its hands-off approach, allowing individuals to coexist without interference.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects on the characteristic merit of the Anglican Church, suggesting that its ability to allow personal space and freedom of belief is a valuable principle. By not imposing strict doctrines or demands on its followers, the Church creates an environment where individuals can navigate their own spiritual journeys, promoting a sense of autonomy and personal growth.
In practice
In a discussion on religious tolerance, one might reference Emerson's quote to highlight the importance of allowing individuals to follow their own beliefs.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict.
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.
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