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My strength is made perfect in weakness. Her figure is harder to ignore than a ringing telephone. Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. Philosophy ... should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is. Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. We don't love a woman for what she says, but we like what she says because we love her. We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse. Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. If this is dying, I don't think much of it. Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. I follow my heart, for I can trust it.
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