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 In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited. - Sallust  Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good. - Epicurus Fear is faith that it won't work out. Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied. Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check. Thales was asked what was most difficult to man; he answered: "To know one's self." - Diogenes Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first or late, A work too great for fame. God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. - Bible He that would have fruit must climb the tree. Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious. - Virgil To every man according to his ability. - Bible 
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