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Saint Basil has 86 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and…
— Kevin Costner
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A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot…
— Ken Kesey
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What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we…
— Saint Basil
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that…
— Os Guinness
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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
— Oscar Wilde
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Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,…
— Henry James
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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and…
— Walter Scott
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For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
— Robin Hobb
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