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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

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The diversity of language alienates man from man

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A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

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Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

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The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

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You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

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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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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

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For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

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There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

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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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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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