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 The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.  To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster. If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God. God is to me that creative Force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love. If you want to be loved, be lovable. - Ovid He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence. Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better. Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again-this is the brave and happy life. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons. The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved. No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests. Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. 
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