"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
-Thomas a Kempis
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"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
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"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
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"All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it."
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"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
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"Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living."
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