"Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?"
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not…
— Bertrand Russell
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
— Joseph Story
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An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom.
— Martin Luther
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is…
— Rick Santorum
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The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same…
— Unknown Author
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Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up…
— Adolf Hitler
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This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the…
— Orson Pratt
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PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.
— Rick Santorum
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The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is…
— Rick Santorum
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