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Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.

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If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not to do evil.

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A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

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Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.

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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

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