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 We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.  A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word). Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting. My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age. Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Faith is a gift of God. Laws die, books never. I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. When things go wrong, don't go with them. Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. All things must change to something new, to something strange. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. Liberal - a power worshipper without power. Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred, one never worried about the minor ones. 
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