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I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

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What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
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Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
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Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
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Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.
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The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
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We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
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