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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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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and…
— James Burgh
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We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach…
— William Tyndale
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Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make…
— Peter Gay
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that…
— Boethius
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Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
— Anwar Sadat
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He is great enough that is his own master.
— Joseph Hall
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A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin…
— John of Kronstadt
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I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any…
— Edmund Burke
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No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given…
— Saint Basil
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A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control…
— Carl Jung
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