"The virtues of society are the vices of the saints."
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"Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet."
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"It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . ."
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"From somber, serious sullen saints, save us, O Lord."
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"I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog."
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"As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods."
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"He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash."
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"We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace."
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"The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty. He does all things in His time."
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"While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee."
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"Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills."
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"I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!"
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"Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity."
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"The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints."
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"You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?"
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"My father was a saint. He was the closest thing to a saint that you can find in a normal man."
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"There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world."
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"It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."
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"Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?"
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"My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978."
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