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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.


Thomas Dekker

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MOTHER TERESA Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
MOTHER TERESA Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
MOTHER TERESA True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
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MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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MOTHER TERESA Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
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MOTHER TERESA The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
MOTHER TERESA Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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MOTHER TERESA A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
MOTHER TERESA Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
MOTHER TERESA Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
MOTHER TERESA Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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ST. JEROME Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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