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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the…
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its…
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the…
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism…
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
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Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this…
— Wendell Berry
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What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots….…
— Yuri Gagarin
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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God?…
— J C Ryle
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I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times…
— Claude Monet
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A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.
— Pope Francis
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The accursed one does not allow the eye of the heart to see the Lord or His saints. He darkens our heart…
— John of Kronstadt
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Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but…
— Thomas Merton
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's…
— Marquis de Sade
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The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.
— Unknown Author
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