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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. ↗

— George Santayana

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

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All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different. ↗

— George Santayana

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ↗

— George Santayana

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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

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