A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.Saint Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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