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 In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.  Get black on white. To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. We will either find a way, or make one. - Hannibal Genius is eternal patience. For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves. Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored. Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it! Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories. Laws are never as effective as habits. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't. Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies. Let weakness learn meekness. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. 
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