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Norman Ralph Augustine

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NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To seek the highest good is to live well.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The purpose of all wars, is peace.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Love, and do what you like.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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ST. AUGUSTINE It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE As certain as the Correggiosity of Correggio.
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ST. AUGUSTINE Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Unless you believe, you will not understand.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The argument is at an end.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The greatest evil is physical pain.
SAINT AUGUSTINE It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE That great dust-heap called 'history'.
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