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• Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and… — Francis of Assisi
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• For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way… — Josemaria Escriva
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• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to… — Thucydides
• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt,… — D. H. Lawrence
• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Saint Augustine
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