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Other Quotes by Bernard of Clairvaux
- There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ...…
- Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one,…
- I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
- It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar…
- What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and…
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