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The Lord says, 'Whoever has, to him shall be given' (Mt. 13:12). He will give, then, to those who have; that is to say, if they use freely and cheerfully what they have received, He will add to and perfect His gifts.

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I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

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In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

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The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

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Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

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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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You are what you love.

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

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There is no salvation outside the church.

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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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Truth is not private property.

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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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God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

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God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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