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Saint Augustine Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Augustinus_1.jpg/220px-Augustinus_1.jpg)
Bishop of Hippo Regius.Augustine of Hippo (Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis) (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin,St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province. His writings were very influential in the development of Western Christianity.
Here are some famous quotes by Saint Augustine.
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By-and-by never comes.
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Love and do what you like.
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The argument is at an end.
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I was in love with loving.
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Sin is its own punishment.
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Poetry is the Devil's wine.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Lord make me chaste - but not yet.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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He that is not jealous is not in love.
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Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
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O Lord help me to be pure but not yet.
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Unless you believe you will not understand.
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Give me chastity and continence but not yet.
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Habit if not resisted soon becomes necessity.
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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
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Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
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The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
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In the absence of justice what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.
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The higher your structure is to be the deeper must be its foundation.
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This is the very perfection of a man to find out his own imperfections.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Lord who art always the same give that I know myself give that I know Thee.
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If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.
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Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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Indeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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What you are must always displease you if you would attain to that which you are not.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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God is more truly imagined than expressed and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
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Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.
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Faith is to believe what we do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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He that is kind is free though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave though he be a king.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
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What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.
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When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend; on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains at the huge waves of the sea at the long courses of the rivers at the vast compass of the ocean at the circular motions of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers because he is always ready to give to us his light not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.