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While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

St Francis De Sales

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If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
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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.
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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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We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
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Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
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There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.
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There is nothing small in the service of God.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
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It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.
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Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
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Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
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Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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It matters little how one begins, provided that he be resolved to go on well, and to end well.
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