Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
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I'm referring to anybody who is trying to interfere with the process of interfering with what the will of the people are. It is the people who should make the decision. And whoever that decision is, the establishment needs to get behind them and push them, not be going in a different direction, there is no way that can be a successful startegy no matter what you believe or who is the candidate.
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Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
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His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.
