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Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

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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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.
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The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
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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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I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
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There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences.
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All wars are civil ones for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.
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How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
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As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.
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Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.
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O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
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Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.
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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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Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
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So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
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Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.
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