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• The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Ladder of Saint Augustine...
• We are ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
  -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- On Christian doctrine (396-427)...
• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- A Psalm of Life...
• For 300 years we have denied the carnal side of our nature.
  How can we learn to put that aside? Eh, well, you....
• Necessity has no law. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Soliloquium Animae ad Deum
• Poetry is the devil's wine. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Confessions (397-398)
• Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
• The virtues of society are the vices of the saint. -- Emerso