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The thoughtful framers of our Constitution legislated for our country as they found it.
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I have never had any trouble turning the page in the book of my life.
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You are going to make mistakes — own them, make amends, and move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time. Turn the page, get off the ride.
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The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.
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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
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Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
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Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.