Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Nothing is wasted.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
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No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
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Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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When you have talked yourself into what you want, right there is the place to stop talking and begin saying it with deeds.
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The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds.
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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
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The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.
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One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.
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Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.
