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When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. Well, God is certainly getting an earful tonight. Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen. Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. When you want really big money, you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton. Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women. Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty. It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
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