Late have I loved thee

Late have I loved thee oh beauty so ancient yet so new

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Unjust laws aren't laws at

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

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This is the very perfection

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.

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To wisdom belongs the intellectual

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

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If you would attain to

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

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...Thou madest us for Thyself,

...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

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My love for you, Lord,

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

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The world is a great

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

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Nothing is so much to

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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You (God) have not only

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

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