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Quote by George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. – George Santayana

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. – Eva Le Gallienne

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

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Saintliness is also a temptation. – Jean Anouilh

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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. – Evelyn Waugh

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Mans nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. – Mahatma Gandhi

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. – African proverb

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