"It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large."
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"I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one."
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"At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one."
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"The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?"
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"He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven."
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"For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next."
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"Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!"
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"For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more."
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"Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud."
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"So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you."
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"Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him."
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"The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time."
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"I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it."
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"I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership."
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"Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him."
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"When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element"
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"Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die."
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"Give credit to whom credit due."
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"But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts."
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"Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required."
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