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Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book." - Life of Christ (pt. II, s. XII, 16) [Books] Every school-boy knows it. - On the real Presence (sec. V, 1), phrase attributed to Macaulay from his frequent use of it [Education] Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. - Sermon [Sensibility] Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits along, and is confined and dies in singularity. - Sermon (XVII, The Marriage Ring, pt. I) [Matrimony] The stars shall be rent into threds of light, And scatter'd like the beards of comets. - Sermon I--Christ's Advent to Judgment [Stars] To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. - Works (vol. VII, p. 206), (Eden's ed.) [Sin] Displaying page 8 of 8 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8]
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