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A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.
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It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have…
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An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend…
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…
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The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
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When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself…
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Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.
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The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind…
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The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.
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As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those…
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Do not regard the feelings of a person who speaks to you about his neighbor disparagingly, but rather say to him: "Stop,…
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred;…
— George Chapman
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…
— John Climacus
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
— Plutarch
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In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty…
— Bartholomew Roberts
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Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
— Minna Antrim
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From abundance springs satiety.
— Unknown Author
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He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath…
— Evelyn Waugh
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
— Ambrose Bierce
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