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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that…
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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He…
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration…
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
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How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be…
— William Shakespeare
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
— Fisher Ames
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Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of…
— Mother Teresa
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Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
— George Meredith
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A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness…
— George Eliot
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I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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