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Dorothy Day has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We…
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What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and…
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If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.
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It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions....
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that…
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When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.
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Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good…
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting…
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What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each…
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It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away…
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What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into…
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Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know -…
— Claude Debussy
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A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
— William Shakespeare
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with…
— Oscar Wilde
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Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply…
— Will Self
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To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
— Monica Lewinsky
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It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for…
— Golda Meir
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for…
— Oscar Wilde
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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess.…
— Brian Jacques
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As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
— Dorothy Day
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