Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
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