Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
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History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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