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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
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For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
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For it is in giving that we receive.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.
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For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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