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Show Sensual love, which only attaches itself it-self to passing enjoyments, soon evaporates, evap-orates, as they do with the rapidity-of spring flowers; but pure love, and that which God approves, is much more durable, dur-able, because its object never changes, the more the chain which unites these two souls thus drawn together by the same affection becomes close, indestructible. inde-structible. Such is the privilege of the ftiendship of which God Ms the principle. prin-ciple. St. Gregory of Nazianzen. Seek the company of the good, love their useful and holy society, form an intimate intercourse with persons leading lead-ing holy lives. It would be better to endure the.hatred o.f the wicked than to lose one's self by making connections which would be fatal to? virtue St Anselm. .... ... L...I... ii m,.,i. uji a linn luiihii nntt-' '' .l 1 ' ihi -m-m- |