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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.
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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
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If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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The desire is thy prayers and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
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Truth is not private property.
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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.
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