Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
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People know I was the last true champion.
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What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
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The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.
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When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I'm still missing that little something.
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When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
