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maxim[10][7] = "He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams."; | maxim[10][7] = "He who wishes to go to Paradise must be an honest man and a good Christian, and not give heed to dreams."; | ||
maxim[10][8] = "Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God’s children than their own; [they should bring up their children] to count life and health, and all they possess, as loans which they hold of God."; | maxim[10][8] = "Fathers and mothers of families should bring up their children virtuously, looking at them rather as God’s children than their own; [they should bring up their children] to count life and health, and all they possess, as loans which they hold of God."; | ||
maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Pater Noster, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on making a sort of meditation of it word by word."; | maxim[10][9] = "In saying the Pater Noster, we ought to reflect that we have God for our Father in heaven, and so go on, making a sort of meditation of it word by word."; | ||
maxim[10][10] = "To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves,<i> “And then? And then?â€</i>"; | maxim[10][10] = "To make ourselves disaffected to the things of the world, it is a good thing to think seriously of the end of them, saying to ourselves,<i> “And then? And then?â€</i>"; | ||
maxim[10][11] = "The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor."; | maxim[10][11] = "The devil, who is a most haughty spirit, is never more completely mastered than by humility of heart, and a simple, clear, undisguised manifestation of our sins and temptations to our confessor."; | ||
