Every day He humbles Himself just as He did when from from His heavenly throne into the Virgin's womb; every day He comes to us and lets us see Him in lowliness, when He descends from the bosom of the Father into the hands of the priest at the altar.


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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON
States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON
All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL