"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets.……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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