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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. The harder you work, the luckier you get. It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind. There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man. We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living. Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses. Children have more need of models than of critics. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you. A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. Book lovers never go to bed alone.
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