"The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my…
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Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that…
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
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I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
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A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul…
— Mary Balogh
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My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of…
— Robert M. Price
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Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the…
— Timothy Winter
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So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because…
— Dan B. Allender
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Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic…
— Pope Pius X
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Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any…
— Renzo Novatore
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God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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