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 Example has more followers than reason.  There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's what we do with them that's important. The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption. The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts. Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men. Wishing does not make a poor man rich. Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two. The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance. Great and good are seldom the same man. God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. 
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