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Ward: A brother asked Abba Poemen, "Can a man keep all his thoughts in control, and not surrender one to the enemy?"
And the old man said to him, "There are some who receive ten and give one."

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'How much joy, how much peace of soul would a man not have wherever he went, as Abba Poemen says, if he was one who habitually accused himself?'

We have not been taught to kill our bodies, but to kill our passions.

Ward: "Even if a man were to make a new heaven and earth, he could not live free of care."

Ward: [Abba Poemen] also said, "The first time flee; the second time, flee; and the third, become like a sword."

Ward: Abba Poemen said, "If I am in a place where there are enemies, I become a soldier."

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