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maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Maries with our arms extended, or an extra rosary."; | maxim[6][10] = "It is a good thing, during the week that follows our communion-day, to do something more than usual; for example, to say five Our Fathers and Hail Maries with our arms extended, or an extra rosary."; | ||
maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away."; | maxim[6][11] = "It is not a good thing to load ourselves with many spiritual exercises; it is better to undertake a little, and go on with it: for if the devil can persuade us to omit an exercise once, he will easily get us to omit it the second time, and the third, until at last all our pious practices will melt away."; | ||
maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward | maxim[6][12] = "We must take care of little faults: for he who once begins to go backward and to make light of such defects brings a sort of grossness over his conscience, and then goes wrong altogether."; | ||
maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it."; | maxim[6][13] = "The servant of God ought to seek knowledge, but never to show it or make a parade of it."; | ||
maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity, and take this as our rule - Never out of human respect to conceal anything from our confessor, however inconsiderable it may be."; | maxim[6][14] = "Let us always go to confession with sincerity, and take this as our rule - Never out of human respect to conceal anything from our confessor, however inconsiderable it may be."; | ||
