Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine
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  1. It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

  2. Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

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