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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you…
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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of…
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O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a…
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Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
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In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right…
— Thucydides
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We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the…
— Thucydides
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and…
— Jascha Heifetz
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If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
— Jay Maisel
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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