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On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty To God and my country


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HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.
TERESA OF AVILA Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical...
RODAN OF ALEXANDRIA We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and...
TERESA OF AVILA You can't step twice into the same river.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the pr...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a ...
MECHTHILD OF MAGHEBURG Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where th...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. ...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic...
TERESA OF AVILA You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea...
SISTERS OF MERCY Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
TERESA OF AVILA Hope is the poor man's bread.
THALES OF MILETUS