St. Philip Neri said.....

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"Let young men be cheerful, and indulge in the recreations proper to their age, provided they keep out of the way of sin."

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"Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot bed of vices."

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"All created things are liberal, and show the goodness of the Creator: the sun scatters its light; the fire its heat; the tree throws out its arms, which are its branches, and reaches to us the fruit it bears; water, and air, and all nature express the liberality of the Creator, and we, who are His lively image, do not represent Him, but through our degenerate manners deny Him in deeds while we are confessing Him with our mouths."

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"The hour is finished - we may say the same of the year; but the time to do good is not finished yet."

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"WELL! When shall we have a mind to begin to do good?"

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"Nulla dies sine linea: Do not let a day pass without doing some good during it."

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"We must not be behind time in doing good; for death will not be behind his time."

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"Happy is the youth, because he has time before him to do good."

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"It is well to choose some, one good devotion, and to stick to it, and never to abandon it."

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"He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing."

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"Let no one wear a mask, otherwise he will do ill; and if he has one, let him burn it."