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 My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.  The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold. Poetry is a mug's game. If you would but exchange places with the other fellow, how much more you could appreciate your own position. Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face. If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? "So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter." Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching. Fear always springs from ignorance. The great cathedral space which was childhood. Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. - Ovid All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand. Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves. 
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