"Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."
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"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
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"We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?"
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"Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession."
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"I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand."
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"A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."
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"My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent."
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"Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent."
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"Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine."
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"Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech."
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"The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away."
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"Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change."
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"To be a saint is to be yourself."
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"The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors."
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"To be a saint is to will the one thing."
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"My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon."
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"I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I."
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"Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
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"It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans."
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"Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent."
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