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Page 51 - I have been young, and now am old : and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.
Page 52 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 49 - How gratefully do they enter upon lands that are given them by some one who is not the true owner, in defiance of any and every protest of orphans, widows, or men of religion, caring not so much how they get them as how they may keep them. And because their rule does not allow them to govern parishioners, they proceed to raze villages and churches, turn out parishioners...
Page 172 - ... eloquence; with sweet serenity open up the wholesome difficulties, making the rough way smooth, and straightening the winding paths. Age and poring over books are now bringing blindness upon you, and are making your last years tuneful as of old were those of dimeyed Homer. No longer with your bodily eyes,3 but with such as angels use to see the Lord, may you view and contemplate him and his works, that through this darkness he may lead you into his marvellous light, who with God the Father and...
Page 49 - What then shall we do ? I 1 And he answering, said to them : He that hath two coats, let him give to him that hath none : and he that hath meat let him do in like manner.
Page 77 - ... political freedom being either effectually conferred by a sovereign in gift, or communicated by the force of foreign arms; but as liberty is the greatest blessing which man can enjoy, so it seems to be the law of nature that it should be the reward of intrepidity and energy alone ; and that it...
Page 274 - Sisyphus there carries a stone from the bottom of a valley to the top of a mountain, and when it rolls back thence follows it, to carry it back that it may fall again. Here too are those who gain the height of riches and think nothing has been attained, and follow their heart, fallen back into the valley of avarice, to bring it back to a mountain yet farther off, whereon indeed it is not permitted to abide, because in hope of what is desired, what is obtained seems poor, and that heart is likened...
Page 1 - IN time I exist, and of time I speak," said Augustine: and added, "What time is I know not." In a like spirit of perplexity I may say that in the court I exist and of the court I speak, and what the court is, God knows, I know not. I do know however that the court is not time; but temporal it is, changeable and various, space-bound and wandering, never continuing in one state.
Page 7 - The villeins on the other hand (or rustics, as we call them) vie with each other in bringing up their ignoble and degenerate offspring to those arts which are forbidden to them; not that they may shed vices, but that they may gather riches; and the more skill they attain, the more ill they do. The arts are as the swords of mighty men: their force varies with the method of him who holds them: in the hand benigni principis pacifici sunt, in manu tiranni mortiferi.
Page 34 - ... drives her away, he loses the mistress of all virtues and calls up out of the pit of vices covetous pride. Many have tried, in concert, to get rid of the poverty of their order, and when that is driven off, humility flees too. Then comes that prince, proud in riches, whom Jesus, humble in poverty, cast out, Jesus who came not to Elias in the wind that rent the rocks, nor in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the murmur of the light breeze, for which Elias, putting aside all the aforesaid,...