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To Be Able To Live Peaceably With Hard And Perverse Persons, Or With The Disorderly, Or With Such As Go Contrary To Us, Is A Great Grace.

Be Thankful For The Smallest Blessing And You Will Deserve To Receive Greater. Value The Least Gifts No Less Than The Greatest, And Simple Graces As Especial Favors. If You Remember The Dignity Of The Giver, No Gift Will Seem Small Or Mean.

Endeavor To Be Always Patient Of The Faults And Imperfections Of Others; For Thou Hast Many Faults And Imperfections Of Thine Own That Require Forbearance. If Thou Art Not Able To Make Thyself That Which Thou Wishest, How Canst Thou Expect To Mold Another In Conformity To Thy Will?

Do Not Let Your Peace Depend On The Hearts Of Men; Whatever They Say About You, Good Or Bad, You Are Not Because Of It Another Man, For As You Are, You Are.

Occasions Do Not Make A Man Either Strong Or Weak But They Show What He Is.