“Let each of the Appetites, so necessary to our bodies, be our servant and not our master, and remember, above all things, that sin and slavery to any Appetite begin in our thoughts. It is our thoughts that we must rule, and the way to rule them is very simple. We just have to think of something else when an evil thought comes, something really interesting and nice, with a prayer in our hearts to God to help us to do so.”
― Ourselves
― Ourselves
“Then the air the sparrow breathed we could breathe tool”
― The Wonder Book of Chemistry
― The Wonder Book of Chemistry
“You are two vagabonds, you are two tramps,' and out he comes and beats us, and calls us hard names, and rolls us in the mud and snow, and goes in, fastening the door behind him. Then if we get up and go on in great content, glad to suffer hardships, remembering how our Master suffered for our sake, that, Brother Leo, would be the perfect joy.”
― Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages
― Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages
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