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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance

Written by — translated by Paschal Robinson Francis of Assisi c.1182–1226 · Italian religious founder
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Robinson’s 1906 translation contains this sentence in Admonition 27, Of the Virtues Putting Vices to Flight. Wikiquote identifies the same admonition. The checked edition’s English wording agrees with the display apart from punctuation; this is an English translation, not Francis’s original language.

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The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, Paschal Robinson translation, Admonition 27
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Paschal Robinson, Dolphin Press, 1906

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Robinson translation, full text

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  • Robinson’s 1906 translation contains this sentence in Admonition 27, Of the Virtues Putting Vices to Flight. Wikiquote identifies the same admonition. The checked edition’s English wording agrees with the display apart from punctuation; this is an English translation, not Francis’s original language. Robinson translation, full text ↗
  • Assigns the sentence to Admonition 27. Wikiquote admonition reference ↗
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Admonition 27 sets virtues alongside the vices they displace. The next clauses connect patience with humility and poverty with joy. Robinson’s English sentence is one rendering of Francis’s spiritual instruction, not an English original composed by the medieval author. Robinson translation, full text ↗

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Robinson translation, full textoll-resources.s 3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com

Contains the exact sentence at Admonition 27; identifies Paschal Robinson, Dolphin Press 1906 and public-domain status.
Wikiquote admonition referenceen.wikiquote.org

Assigns the sentence to Admonition 27.
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About Francis of Assisi

Francis of Assisi

c.1182–1226 · Italian religious founder

Francis of Assisi founded the religious movement that became the Franciscan order. His surviving rules, letters and admonitions address life together, humility and service. English quotations from those writings depend on the particular translator; the medieval author did not write these English sentences.

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