“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more”
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“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”
“When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.”
“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.”