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Love is friendship set on fire.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
...Learn to give thanks for everything.
Dive on them and squash them if you must.
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
God fails not to sow blessings in the furrows.
Friendship is the strongest bond in the world.
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.
It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls.
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.
To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.
When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.