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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer an

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Prayer and practice is good rhyme. – Scottish Proverb

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Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. – Walter A. Mueller

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. – Yiddish Proverb

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There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. – O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912

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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, theyre really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. – Jena Malone

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