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  • Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.33, Courier Corporation