Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

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Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

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