"God will have life to be real; we……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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…
If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
A little praise goes a great ways.

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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. — Paul Cezanne
You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both.… — Jennifer Aniston
If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them… — Charles Spurgeon
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a… — John Aubrey
Golf always makes me so damned angry. — George V
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of… — Brigit of Kildare
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very… — Dick Cheney

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