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«Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.»
Author: St. Basil | About: Existence, Power
«The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the coat that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold that you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.»
«A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.»
Author: St. Basil | About: Courtesy, Friendship, Kindness, Love | Keywords: courtesy, gathers, plants, reaps, sows
«Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.»
Author: St. Basil | Keywords: curses, drive away, The Hunger
«Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.»
Author: St. Basil | About: Comfort | Keywords: intolerable
«Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.»
Author: St. Basil | About: Hunger, Trouble | Keywords: brooms, curses, drive away, shovels
«Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.»
Author: St. Basil | Keywords: of necessity
«A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.»
Author: St. Basil
«[The pope focused on scriptural readings that said God's love was seen in the] marvels of creation. ... fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them, imagine a universe free of direction and order, as if at the mercy of chance.»
Author: St. Basil
«Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.»
Author: St. Basil | Keywords: tidings, tingle, tingled, tingling

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