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[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from the dew that falls on the wormwood as from that which falls on the rose.
Vincent de Paul
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Vincent de Paul
Age: 79 †
Born: 1581
Born: April 24
Died: 1660
Died: September 27
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[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.
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All beginnings are somewhat strange but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.
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A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.
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... I am sure that you are the first to do what you teach them.
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He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as are all those with which we deal.
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It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.
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