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 We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.  Letter home from, college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369." Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. In an easy cause any man may be eloquent. - Ovid Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life. Life is a series of relapses and recoveries. The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And, yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neidier, though by your smiling, you seem to say so. It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. We are all of us richer than we think we are. It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them. Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. How forcible are right words! - Bible The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut. If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness? A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. Of whom the world was not worthy. - Hebrews 
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