Quotes from authors born in 1515
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa
Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham

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