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1697 Clergyman Quotes

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Knowledge Leaves Love Off
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Binds Disposition Mind Passion
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Natural Right Self-Love Love
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Convert Go Guide Hand
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Attained Good Happiness Man
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Earth Friendship More Nothing
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

According Live Men Most
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Cannot Evil Exist Good
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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Explanation Faith Necessary Possible
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

Addicted Become Cannot Carnal
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It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Deeds From Time To Time Jokes Make
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Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

Accepts Believe Church Clearly
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Care Common Common Good Community
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Common Consider Hesitation His
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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Aim Captain Forever He
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Away Does Moral Passions
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To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Actual Bear Done Else
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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

Demands Disclosure Divine Human
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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Difficult Everything More Not
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith Hand Hope Seen
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Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Acts Appropriate Because Conditions
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Better Friendship Justice Moral
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How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

About Barely Billions Declaring
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

Abundant Enjoy God Grace
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Active Defect Individual Likeness
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Activity Good Live Show
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Artist Does Excellence Goes
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

According Nature Received Recipient
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Afterwards Believing Evidence Full
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If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Because Christ Go He
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Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Ancient Church Deny Dissolve
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Better Contemplate Deliver Illuminate
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Estimate Humility Make Right
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

High Judgments None Opinion
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Around Half Lie Shoes
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Best Carve Good Hearts
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wise Deal Fool Great
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You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Always Expect Get Might
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Enjoy Happiness Makes Much
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Adhering to basic hygienic measures is close to Godliness. God bless you.

Hygiene Godliness Measures God
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Ark Perseverance Reached Snail
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Beware Carry Enemies Man
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No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Knows Listening Wish Newspapers
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Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Crack Hard Kernel Must
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Value Hypocrite Person Least
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Eggs Golden Goose Lay
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Appearance Miserable Person Poor
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Affliction Best Lord Gets
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