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 Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.  I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan, while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished, to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America. The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's. Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently. Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away. Want, the mistress of invention. Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. A man must learn to forgive himself. I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. - Bible The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one. Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all. Silence is the unbearable repartee. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. A liar should have a good memory. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. 
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