Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the freewill offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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