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Topic: community
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“...I have paid more than sixty thousand francs (on the motherhouse), besides supplying the wants of the one hundred and thirty persons who compose our family. How, are we not daughters of Providence?”
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“Besides the admirable union that exists between persons of different nationalities, of dispositions so opposite, some well informed, others without education, there is also...a great spirit of faith, of piety and a confidence in God which goes as far, I believe, as it can go.”
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“Come to Saint Mary's...to give me the consolation of seeing you all, fervent and united, which is the greatest happiness that I can have in this world.”
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“If all but understood the power of that one word charity; how it unites and binds and welds together.”
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“To God alone be the glory of our labors, and to you, dear friends, the recompense on account of the assistance you will give us.”
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“You may have to wait longer than you would like, you may have to bear privations; but, bear and forbear.”
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“Believe me ... always and everywhere you will find people who will try your patience and you yourself will try theirs.”
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“The manners, the customs, and usages here are so different from ours that they will appear extraordinary.”
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