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 All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.  Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air. All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign. Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase. Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. Duration is not a test of true or false. Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them. Make use of time, let not advantage slip. If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick. Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future. Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. - Bible I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart. Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. - Voltaire Things past redress are now with me past care. 
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