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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - Author object (95)

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. - Author object (95)

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - Author object (533)

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. - Author object (533)

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. - Author object (533)

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. - Author object (533)

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. - Author object (533)

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself. - Author object (533)

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Author object (533)

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. - Author object (533)

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. - Author object (533)

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. - Author object (533)

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. - Author object (533)

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love. - Author object (533)

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail. - Author object (533)

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that? - Author object (533)

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. - Author object (533)

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Author object (533)

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. - Author object (533)

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. - Author object (533)