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Poetry is devil's wine.

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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
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Christ was born of a woman without the man.
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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
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Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)
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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.
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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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My weight is my love.
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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.
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What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.
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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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Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.
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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.
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We speak, but it is God who teaches.
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Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
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Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.
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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
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