I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.
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It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
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Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.
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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
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Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
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Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
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