Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
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You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after no oracle that you need to consult for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.
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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
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