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 Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.  How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail! All our acts have sacramental possibilities. The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe. There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it. Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad. It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones. Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business." Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences. There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it. Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. Flowers grow out of dark moments. None think the great unhappy, but the great. We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation. Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold. All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today. 
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