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1 Pref, 1 | edition of which it seemed better to postpone for the present,
2 Pref, 2 | perfection, her argument will be better understood "than in other
3 Intr, 0 | edify others. She was much better employed, she herself thought,
4 Intr, 0 | for such as can treat them better than I. And I pass over
5 Unic, 2 | worse rather than what is better. This was the case with
6 Unic, 3 | a half, and was much the better for it. I began to say a
7 Unic, 3 | it would have been much better for me. I also had a close
8 Unic, 3 | father's house. When I got better, they took me to see my
9 Unic, 4 | thought I could serve God better or which my father might
10 Unic, 4 | in the end I might become better. It would seem, my God,
11 Unic, 5 | and lead holy lives it is better they should have none at
12 Unic, 5 | that they have known no better. I had supposed that they
13 Unic, 6 | that I might serve Thee better! And that was the cause
14 Unic, 6 | incur damnation, it would be better for me to remain as I was;
15 Unic, 6 | I should serve God much better if I recovered my health.
16 Unic, 7 | to pray. It seemed to me better, since in my wickedness
17 Unic, 7 | confounded and I would be all the better for it; so he has very seldom
18 Unic, 7 | Otherwise they will do better to keep them at home; for
19 Unic, 7 | realize that they were far better than I and that what was
20 Unic, 7 | that he had not served God better: he would have liked to
21 Unic, 7 | fortnight, though he got much better and the doctors told him
22 Unic, 7 | such a father by growing better. His confessor, who was
23 Unic, 9 | and I used to think I felt better when I dwelt on those parts
24 Unic, 10 | know what is wrong with it better than I. But I beseech him,
25 Unic, 10 | given me more ability, and a better memory, I might have profited
26 Unic, 11 | end, so that it may the better employ itself in the love
27 Unic, 11 | which waters the ground much better, for it saturates it more
28 Unic, 11 | ours, a way incomparably better than any of those which
29 Unic, 11 | years. He prepared himself better than I, and thus his garden,
30 Unic, 11 | the weakness of our nature better than we ourselves and He
31 Unic, 12 | have written about it much better elsewhere, and I have felt
32 Unic, 13 | know that we can desire no better kind of sight or health
33 Unic, 13 | health has been very much better. It is of great importance,
34 Unic, 13 | to consider all others better than ourselves. In this
35 Unic, 13 | things, for His Majesty knows better than we what kind of food
36 Unic, 13 | to understand that it is better for her to obey him than
37 Unic, 13 | he will tell her it is better for her to be engaged in
38 Unic, 13 | learned this person, the better. Those who walk in the way
39 Unic, 14 | inspiration, one can write better and more easily. I seem
40 Unic, 14 | plants would be all the better if He did. I speak of pruning,
41 Unic, 14 | continually, that I may be the better able to sing Thy praise.
42 Unic, 15 | much disturbed, it will do better to leave it alone than to
43 Unic, 15 | it sees itself in so much better a state. Let it make certain
44 Unic, 15 | eyes, yet perhaps makes a better thanksgiving than the understanding
45 Unic, 15 | we receive from Him, the better we learn it. He gives us
46 Unic, 16 | understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which
47 Unic, 17 | know very well that the better part of the soul is elsewhere.
48 Unic, 18 | increases so that it may the better have fruition of its bliss.
49 Unic, 18 | I am generally much the better for it. What harm can possibly
50 Unic, 18(142)| have used a phrase which better suits the context.]~
51 Unic, 19 | to fall again, it will be better for me not to go on practising
52 Unic, 20(151)| 1565", which is not much better.]~
53 Unic, 20 | and so now understand it better, my pulses almost cease
54 Unic, 20 | solitary state I am in seems better than all the world's companionship.
55 Unic, 20 | crucible, so that He might the better set in it the enamel of
56 Unic, 20 | engulfed -- or, to put it better, the Lord engulfs it in
57 Unic, 20 | fewer enemies it has, the better, prevents the senses from
58 Unic, 21 | would be for kings! How much better it would be for them if
59 Unic, 21 | believe me, I should say it better in the very presence of
60 Unic, 21 | to know and love God the better, to realize what I owed
61 Unic, 22 | that I might serve Thee better! True, when I offended Thee,
62 Unic, 22 | Your Reverence will know better than I.~
63 Unic, 22 | in order, as I say, the better to gain itself. But that
64 Unic, 22 | elsewhere. God cares for us better than we can care for ourselves
65 Unic, 23 | what is to come may be the better understood. From this point
66 Unic, 23 | and I found that I was the better for it and developed greater
67 Unic, 23 | the devil, surely it was better for me not to pray at all --
68 Unic, 23 | soul began to grow notably better, as I shall now relate.~
69 Unic, 24 | do, so that I might the better understand that resistance
70 Unic, 24 | enlightened as to which was the better thing to do. So I spent
71 Unic, 25 | all leading incomparably better lives than I, and they were
72 Unic, 26 | them to anyone, as it was better to be quiet about such things.
73 Unic, 27 | my side -- or, to put it better, I was conscious of Him,
74 Unic, 27 | learned men will explain it better. For, if I say that I do
75 Unic, 27 | For we believe that God is better pleased when we are accounted
76 Unic, 27 | was dead -- or, to put it better, that he had entered upon
77 Unic, 28 | Those who know better than I say that the type
78 Unic, 28 | Your Reverence will explain better than I and will expound
79 Unic, 30 | week so as to give me a better opportunity of consulting
80 Unic, 30 | me and spurs me on to do better. Then it would occur to
81 Unic, 31 | I would get other people better than myself to do so too,
82 Unic, 31 | that he was now so much better that days passed without
83 Unic, 31 | fond.246 Though she is a better woman than I am, I could
84 Unic, 31 | since then to give me a better memory. I was bad at singing
85 Unic, 31 | known or not, I got on much better. So this miserable concern
86 Unic, 31(249)| Reputation" would be a better word here, but the wordplay
87 Unic, 31 | so that those who began better may be hopeful that, as
88 Unic, 32 | been against us, were now better disposed and some of them
89 Unic, 33 | were others there who were better than myself, and so I could
90 Unic, 33 | that I should have done better to get money for that than
91 Unic, 33 | henceforth I must lead a better life and not try to do anything
92 Unic, 33 | solitude, so that he might the better practise prayer; and here
93 Unic, 34 | at once to grow markedly better: she felt more comforted
94 Unic, 34 | come to render His Majesty better service, though I was not
95 Unic, 34 | finally my good angel got the better of my evil angel and I went
96 Unic, 34 | satisfied but wanted him to be better still. And after praying
97 Unic, 34 | perhaps making some old woman better versed in this science than
98 Unic, 35 | long experience, none was better able to give, I resolved
99 Unic, 35 | person wants it whom I love better than myself, and I am more
100 Unic, 35 | has changed from good to better. To the young He gives fortitude
101 Unic, 36 | necessary for him to be better so that I could be free
102 Unic, 36 | the secret might be the better kept. I saw that speed was
103 Unic, 36 | found that the Lord would be better served by my abandoning
104 Unic, 36 | do with my being in much better health than ever before,
105 Unic, 36 | health, which has been far better than before. If anyone thinks
106 Unic, 37 | when they got to know me better, they learned how much I
107 Unic, 37 | omit to treat people much better than they deserve it is
108 Unic, 38 | for which reason it is better to say no more about it.~
109 Unic, 38 | shame, so that I may the better realize how far I am from
110 Unic, 38 | All this makes me realize better what I owe to God and what
111 Unic, 39 | He had not granted in a better way than I could have planned;
112 Unic, 39 | am to admit that they are better than I and how ashamed of
113 Unic, 40 | for which reason it is better, as I have said on other