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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.
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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
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The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.
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You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
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You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.
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Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul.
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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else it is the pearl of great price.
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.
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God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?
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