Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - Saint Francis de Sales

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We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

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The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

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Don't get upset with your imperfections. Surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is greater than our weakness.

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Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

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Henry Ford

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything.

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David McCullough

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

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Aiden Wilson Tozer

Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.

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Christina, Queen of Sweden

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

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