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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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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
— Saint Basil
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Get my swan costume ready.
— Anna Pavlova
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will…
— Bernard DeVoto
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white…
— Robinson Jeffers
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We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing
— George Carlin
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I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about…
— Thom Yorke
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I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to…
— Amy Poehler
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Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all…
— Fred Reed
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They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from…
— Woody Allen
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
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The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
— Heinrich Heine
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