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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…
• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the…
• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its…
• Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
• There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs…
• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the…
• As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism…
• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,…
• 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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