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It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

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The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

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Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

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He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

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... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

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The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

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