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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

St Francis De Sales

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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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Artificial Desire Goodness Simplicity
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.
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Courage Heart Imperfection Patience Rise
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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Death One Liner Pride
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
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Patience Yourself
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
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Devotion Life World Worth
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary.
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Greatness Prayer Religious
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
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Beginning Better Life Right Spiritual
Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
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Balance God Hard Heart Purity Willing Work
Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.
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Angry Enemy Exception Ourselves Scream Soul
During the night we must wait for the light.
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Light Night Wait
In everything, love simplicity.
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Love One Liner Simplicity
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Contradict Difficult Gentle Time
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Be Yourself Perfection Self Love Try
It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.
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Love Need Ourselves
To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Live Love Spirit
It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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Beginning End Himself Move On
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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Breathe Easy God Heart
A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
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God Head Heart Memories Ourselves Repeat Word
Be who you are and be that well.
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Be Yourself Self Love
It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
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Bad Better Excellence Silence Talk
Friendship requires great communication.
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Communication Friendship Greatness
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity.
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Better Charity Silence Truth
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
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Anxiety Command Evil Exception God Greatness Prayer Worry Yourself
Strive to see God in all things without exception. Do not smother yourself…If you start smothering yourself with a host of cares and longings and wishes … you will be disabling yourself from serving God with all your heart.
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Care God Heart See Start Strive Yourself
Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.
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Agreement Devotion Unity
There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again.
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Beginning Better Spiritual
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
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Bright Grace Ourselves

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