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“Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead”

“To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.”

Secret Silence Virtue Serious Faults Silent

Author:Ovid

“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”

Humans Heart Secret Virtue Victim Vices Driven Stealing Guilty Devoted Human Heart Infamy

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.”

Ifs Pleasure Secret Virtue

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.”

Made Secret Virtue Honor Waste Anxiety Humble Crafts Firm Generous Formal Cautious Meanness Ordeals Insolence Levity

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Even as the needle that directs the hour, (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole; Even so the wavering powers of my soul, Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.”

Soul Earth Spirit Hours Secret Virtue Influence My Soul Thee Touched Needles Wavering

Author:Francis Quarles

“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.”

Lasts Names Love Is Secret Virtue

Book:A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Source: A Fairly Honourable Defeat

“O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.”

Stills Joy Secret Virtue Sake

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes

“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”

Men Believe Heart Matter Women Secret Existence Virtue Essence Welcome Modesty Skepticism Veils Decency Skeptical Old Woman Superficiality Profundity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.”

Money Secret Virtue Cry Terrible Vices Tongue Owners Betray Creeps Gags

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.”

Men Giving Country Secret Virtue Path Five Pride Keys Demand Vices Manhood Masculine Dilemma Distinctive Grappling Courage To Love

Author:Waller R Newell

“The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.”

Men Giving Doe Evil Secret Virtue Ought Seasons Mark Adversity Worthy Good Man Manifest Forsake

Author:Bhartrhari

“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.”

Source: The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained