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Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

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Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
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Compassionate Humility True
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.
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Ability One Liner Purity
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
The beauty of the world is Christ’s tender smile for us coming through matter.
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Beautiful Environmental Religious Smile World
Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.
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Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.
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Evil React Way
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

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