We must bear our crosses; self is the greatest of them all.… - François Fénelon

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We must bear our crosses; self is the greatest of them all. If we die in part every day of our lives, we shall have but little to do on the last. O how utterly will these little daily deaths destroy the power of the final dying!

François Fénelon

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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (August 6 1651 – January 7 1715) was a French educationalist, critic, poet, and political and religious philosopher.

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Alternative Names: François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon • Fénelon • Phenelon • Franz von Fenelon • Francis Fenelon • abbé de Fénélon • François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon

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