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Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

St Francis De Sales

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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Beautiful Flower Garden Growth
While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
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Busy Greatness Myself Small Value
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
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Foundation Humor
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
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
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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God Greatness Oneself Service Surround
For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
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Greatness Small Temptation Wolf
Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.
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Angry Animal Sight
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
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Forever God Life Yourself
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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Anxiety Doubt Meditation Peace
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
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Evil Fear Greatness
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.
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Attraction Choice Yourself
Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
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Calm Compare Hurry Lose Peace Soul Spirit
Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.
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Command Forever God Moments Pregnant
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
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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Notice Persistence Progress True

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