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I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

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Poppy Z. Brite

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Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

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Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

Simone Biles

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I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.

Clark Johnson

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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Yves Saint Laurent

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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

Saint Ambrose

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I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Hamish Bowles

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Personally, I am thrilled that I can now let my characters clasp a rosary, mention confession or invoke the intercession of a saint without it being edited out of my story.

Regina Doman

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I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Alexander McQueen

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The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.

Toussaint Louverture

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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Yves Saint Laurent

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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

Saint Ambrose

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Charles de Saint-�_vremond

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Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

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Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Kitty Kelley

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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Saint Ignatius

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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

Lorenzo Snow

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At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.

Toussaint Louverture

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

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Michael Smith

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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Saint Ignatius

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.

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Heber J. Grant

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.

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Francis Spufford

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I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by.

Th��r��se of Lisieux

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I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field.

Rick Wakeman

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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

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Saint Ignatius

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I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.

Liberty Ross

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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?