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 We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.  I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve. Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. A good friend is my nearest relation. Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. My only policy is to profess evil and do good. The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less. One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. Distance is a great promoter of admiration! It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire. 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. If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home. Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation. The mirror is the conscience of women; they never do a thing without first consulting it. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.' The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again. 
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