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“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.”

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source: The Motto Book (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1920), 7.

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“Grace, which is charity, contains in itself all virtues in a hidden and potential manner, like the leaves and the branches of the oak hidden in the meat of an acorn. To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree.”

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source: Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 20.

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