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All Quotes Collection
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
97
"O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams."
200
"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."
58
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering."
220
"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."
54
"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."
71
"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
215
"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
55
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
142
"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
64
"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."
217
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
59
"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
Evil,
65
"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
198
"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
71
"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
205
"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."
130
"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
66
"He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."
225
"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
93
"Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture."
29
"Journalists prize independence - not teamwork."
41
"Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners."
31
"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
17
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
58
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
20
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
51
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
27
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
32
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