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"Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday; when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday."
Epistle 36. To Casulanus.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
Works. Vol. iii. In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Sect. 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain