But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded it is supposed to be one-pointed -- a compass, not a weathercock.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievements, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be An actor as well as a spectator.
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