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.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.Saint Basil
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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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.
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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.
Saint Basil
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.
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Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune. . .
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