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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith. Do not wish to be anything but what you are. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. The rich know not who is his friend. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation. It takes all sorts of people to make a world. We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo. Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. Hell is more bearable than nothingness. Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. The most important office is that of private citizen. Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor. Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world. Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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