"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10786/">Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/detail/">Detail</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10865/">How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/devotions/">Devotions</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13720/">If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/failure/">Failure</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16071/">Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/friends_and_friendship/">Friends and Friendship</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28084/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/negotiation/">Negotiation</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Little opportunities should be improved."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28685/">Little opportunities should be improved..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/opportunity/">Opportunity</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/29339/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/past/">Past</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35561/">Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/self-examination/">Self-examination</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37224/">All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/spirit_and_spirituality/">Spirit and Spirituality</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4612/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2428/">FeNelon, Francois</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/books_-_reading/">Books - Reading</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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