Saint Augustine Quotes, Writing Quotes

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

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To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

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Poetry is devil's wine.

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Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

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Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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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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You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

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Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

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The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

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The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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