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 We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.  She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it. Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes. One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. If we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us. - Bible He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods. - Homer Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them. God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason. Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because, however successful he may be in overcoming them, he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice. I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead. Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. Might, could, would-they are contemptible auxiliaries. 
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