Francois Ftnelon

(141 votes)   Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(109 votes)   How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(99 votes)   Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(92 votes)   The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(54 votes)   The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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(47 votes)   If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois FTNelon
1651-1715, French Writer

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