It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
POPE LEO XIIIInequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Peace is built on the foundation of justice.
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To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.
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Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
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Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.
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Catholics are born for combat.
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Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
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It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
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It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
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The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.
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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
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God is not only true, but Truth itself.
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No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.
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