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 What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?  Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself. Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. (Abraham Lincoln's) weathered face was homely as a plowed field. Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number. The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. He who would be happy should stay at home. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence. Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. - Bible By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. - Juvenal The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. More than enough is too much. Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself. To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. Whatever limits us we call Fate. 
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