"Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate."

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Source: Sermon 19:2 on the New Testament. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series. Book edited by Philip Schaff, translated by R.G. MacMullen, Volume 6, www.newadvent.org.

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Saint Augustine

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Saint Augustine was a theologian and philosopher whose works, particularly 'Confessions,' profoundly influenced Christian thought and Western philosophy.

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