"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
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"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? "
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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."
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"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
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"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."
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"When the regard for the truth has been broken down, or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful."
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"In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?"
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
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"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
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"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
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"Punishment is justice for the unjust."
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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."
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"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."
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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
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"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."
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