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 The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.  No man is boss in his own home, but he can make up for it, by making a dog play dead. Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life. No man does anything from a single motive. The cheap, no matter how charming, how immediate, does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through. Citius, altius, fortius. (Swifter, higher, stronger.) In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence. After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone. Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self. Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was. I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself." True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does. 
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