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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we…
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is…
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish…
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not…
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Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of…
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If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit…
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh…
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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
— Joseph Story
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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we…
— Alfred Marshall
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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God…
— John Calvin
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In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
— Alfred Marshall
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Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be…
— Ambrose
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,…
— Salman Rushdie
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