Quote by Saint Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to con

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. – Saint Augustine

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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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. – Saint Augustine

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. – Saint Augustine

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal

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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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