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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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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels. – Saint Augustine

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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. – Saint Augustine

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine

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Im sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasnt on our radar screen. We were just making great software. – Bill Gates

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Men are only as great as they are kind. – Elbert Hubbard

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Ive got a great cigar collection – its actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasnt going to smoke every last one of em. – Ron White

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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. – Christopher Hitchens

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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. – Plautus

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Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard

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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write. – Jeanette Winterson

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. – William Penn

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