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Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.
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There is no leisure about politics.
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God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
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Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
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Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.
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To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
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The happy man in this life needs friends.
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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
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I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
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Art is right reason in the doing of work.
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The last end of every maker, as such, is himself, for what we make we use for our own sake; and if at any time a man make a thing for the sake of something else, it is referred to his own good, whether his use, his pleasure, or his virtue.
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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It covetousness is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.
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