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To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

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For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

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This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

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Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

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I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, that is on no ground credible. Even if some unknown landmass is there, and not just ocean, there was only one pair of original ancestors, and it is inconceivable that such distant regions should have been peopled by Adam's descendants.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

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No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

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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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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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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

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