Austin O'Malley Quotes
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You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
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The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
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A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
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An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
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The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
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Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
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Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
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Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
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Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
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It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
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Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
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Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
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A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
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The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
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Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.
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Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
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A small poet repeats himself like a clock.
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You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
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Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
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When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
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Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
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We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
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True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
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You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
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Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
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Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
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Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
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Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
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