Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our inn…

Thomas Merton
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Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). No Man Is an Island, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). No Man Is an Island, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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