Quotes 61 till 80 of 1714.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
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Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
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