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You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.
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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Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.
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[N]or should you move so fast! The works of God do not proceed in that way they come about of themselves, and those He does not create soon perish.
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His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.
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I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil.
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