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Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
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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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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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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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
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The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.
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Speak, move, act in peace.
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It is better to die than to tell a lie
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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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Pity enlarges the heart.
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God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
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When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
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God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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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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The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.
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