Quotes from authors born in 1696
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
Matthew Green
Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.
Matthew Green
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
Alphonsus Liguori
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Matthew Green
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