Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,...
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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Forgiveness
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
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And die of nothing but a rage to live.
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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
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The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy. The word and the concept of 'mercy' seem to cause uneasiness in man, who, thanks to the enormous development of science and technology, never before known in history, has become master of the earth and has subdued and dominated it. This dominion over the earth, sometimes understood in a one-sided and superficial way, seems to leave no room for mercy....
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age:...
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Health consists with temperance alone.
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
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The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Humor
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
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Passions are the gales of life.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
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The Muse but served to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life;
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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
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His Holiness rejoices to know that the object of your Society is in perfect accord with the doctrine which the Church has always taught and the Saints have always followed, leaving us innumerable beautiful examples of compassion and tenderness.The fact that the Nations have not always followed the precepts of the Church and the example of the Saints moves the Sovereign Pontiff all the more to favour all that tends (while reserving supreme honour to the King of Creation) to foster respect for these other creatures of God, which Providence forbids us to exploit without concern and enjoins us to show wisdom in our use of them …Therefore the August Pontiff trusts that you will find faithful and efficient fellow-workers in the priests of God, since it is their duty to conform to the teaching of the Church and the example of the Saints. It is for them nobly to train souls in sentiments of enlightened gentleness and fostering care and guidance, so that they may offer to the animals refuge from every suspicion of roughness, cruelty or barbarism, and lead men to understand from the beauty of creation something of the infinite perfection of the Creator.’
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Another key element of human ecology is the inviolability of human life, especially at its beginning and its end. The Holy See insistently proclaims that the first and most fundamental of all human rights is the right to life, and that when this right is denied all other rights are threatened. The assumption that abortion and euthanasia are human rights deserving legislative sanction is seen by the Holy See as a contradiction which amounts to a denial of the human dignity and freedom which the law is supposed to protect. A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
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