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 Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and the temporal.  Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not. I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it. A good painter is to paint two main things, namely men and the working of man's mind. The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book. "I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one. You cannot have it both ways. A rich man's joke is always funny. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Languages are the pedigree of nations. The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, And made the day worth living. Never cut what you can untie. All the world's a mass of folly, Youth is gay, age melancholy: Youth is spending, age is thrifty, Mad at twenty, cold at fifty; Man is nought but folly's slave, From the cradle to the grave. God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them. 
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