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• O Lord, grant that we may always be right, for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
  -- Old Scottish Praye...
• Oh Lord, grant that we may not despise our rulers; and grant, oh Lord, that they may not act so we can't help it.
  -- Lyman Beeche...
• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. -- Michelangelo
• Lord, when we are wrong, make us easy to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.
  -- Peter Marshall...
• Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxvii, 1...
• God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.
  Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity....
• If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
  -- Lord Clarendo...
• O love, could thou and I with fate conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Might we not smash it to bits And mould it closer to our hearts' desire?
  -- Omar Khayyam [tr. FitzGerald]...