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 We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.  Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Happiness is a tide: it carries you only a little way at a time; but you have covered a vast space before you know that you are moving at all. Power is the ability to do good things for others. Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress. To heal ourselves we also have to heal society. Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. - Bible Flirtation, attention without intention. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. Fear is the parent of cruelty. To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. Deliberate often - decide once. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health. 
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