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No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.
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All sorts and conditions of men.
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The world, the flesh, the devil.
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From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is ...
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We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure an...
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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we...
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
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The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which w...
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Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
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Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
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To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
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Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in the...
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Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
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To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickne...
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To love, cherish, and to obey.
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In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continu...
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Whose service is perfect freedom.
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To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness ...
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There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continu...
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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow
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Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eter...
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A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Prayer is inward communication with yourself. Action is outward conversation with God.
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A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
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And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
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The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.
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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.
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Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
THEODORE PARKER
God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
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The grace for each day is sufficient to accomplish a daily task.
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The grace of silence-enduring hard times.
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I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those...
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A good smile is less of an outward show of my inward feelings at a certain time, and more of a const...
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Hope is the grace of endurance in the stormy days.
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My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
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Live for today with your eyes on the future.
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Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
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Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
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The hardest step to take is always the first one.
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Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
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Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
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And therefore is the outward beauty a true sign of the inward goodness, and in bodies this comelines...
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The current lack of progress and any visible sign of improvement are unacceptable,
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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TERESA OF AVILA
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SISTERS OF MERCY
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
ROBERT OF DONCASTE
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
AMBROSE OF MILAN
True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA
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BAND OF BROTHERS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA
Shun security.
THALES OF MILETOS
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th...
CATHERINE OF SIENA
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Most men are bad.
BIAS OF PRIENE
Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS
Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI