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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we…
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is…
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish…
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not…
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Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of…
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If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit…
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh…
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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation…
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Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of…
— Ambrose
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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And…
— John Wilmot
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If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have…
— Charles Edison
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Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.
— William Shakespeare
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Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to…
— William Shakespeare
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