"The trouble with being a priest was that……" — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
"The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others."
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22 Quotes by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
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One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
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Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But…
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The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one…
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Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly…
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
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It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
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Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery,…
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To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became…
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
— Arthur Ashe
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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The worst men often give the best advice.
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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