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Topic: love
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“She was all this time a good Sister of Providence, and her loss is keenly felt, by none however so deeply as by me.”
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“Charity consists in loving sincerely persons whose inclinations are most opposed to ours, in pardoning those who injure us.”
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“On the eighth of September, fifteen years ago, the day when for the first time we received Our Divine Savior in this land of American, at that very moment, America ceased to be for me a stranger-land. It became the land of my adoption.”
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“The heart understands the heart. As yours was speaking in your letter, mine understood its language.”
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“Show kindness to them [children] and be attentive to their spiritual and physical needs.”
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“To write requires time; but to love, to cherish, to pray for, through that desire we have for the happiness of our friends, time is not needed.”
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“As I said before, love caused her death. Love broke the bonds that held her soul captive. What a death! Oh, no, not death, but rather the beginning of life - and what a life!”
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“You must try to invent means of correcting your children, but remember that the most powerful means are rewards: a kind word, an approving glance, a little gesture, is sometimes sufficient to correct what the most severe punishment would not have overcome.”
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“...give a little pleasure to your poor Mother Theodore, who loves you so much, and who would like to see you perfect, but who is very far from being perfect herself.”
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