Quote by Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace a

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. – Thomas Merton

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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. – Benjamin Franklin

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for others good, and melt at others woe. – Homer

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Well, if Fortune be a woman, shes a good wench for this gear. – William Shakespeare

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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. – Marilyn Monroe

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