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Bernard of Cluny Quotes

1109–1140 France

Bernard of Cluny (or, of Morlaix or Morlay; fl. c. 1109 – c. 1140) was a twelfth-century French Benedictine monk, best known as the author of De contemptu mundi (On Contempt for the World), a long verse satire in Latin.

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Clergy
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Brief life is here our portion, brief sorrow, short-lived care:
The Life that knows no ending, the tearless Life, is there.

Jerusalem the golden! with milk and honey blest,
Beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice opprest:
I know not, oh, I know not what social joys are there;
What radiancy of glory, what light beyond compare.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard of Cluny (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.