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All seek for knowledge. Knowledge is no more
Than this; To know ourselves, and God adore.
Wouldst thou with profit seek, and learn with gain?—
Unknown thyself, in solitude remain.

Imitat. of Christ, L. I, C. 20. L. II, C. 10.

Virtue retires, but in retirement blooms,
Full of good works, and dying in perfumes .
In thy own heart the living waters rise
Good conscience is the wisdom of the wise!

Man's only confidence, unmixt with pride,
Is the firm trust that God is on his side!
Like Aaron's rod, the Faithful and the Just,
Torn from their tree, shall blossom in the dust.

“The retired christian, in seeking after an happy life, actually enjoys one; and possesses that already which he only fancies he is pursuing.” St. Eucher.

“Drink waters out of thine own cisterns. Prov. C. v, V. 15. See also Rev. C. xxii, V. 1. “And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal.” See John C. vii, V. 38.

Imitat. of Jesus Christ, L. I, C. 6.

Imitat. of Jesus Christ, Lib. II, C. 10.

“The only means of obtaining true security is to commit all our interests to God, who constantly knows and is ever willing to bestow good things on them that ask him as they ought.”

Cassian.

“Security is no-where but in the love and service of God. It is neither in Heaven, nor Paradise, much less in the present world. In Heaven the Angels fell from the divine presence: In Paradise Adam lost his abode of pleasure: In the world Judas fell from the school of our Saviour.” St. Bernard.