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 Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go.  I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow. A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds. Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion? History is philosophy learned from examples. The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. - Pindar He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second. Give an inch, he'll take an ell. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child. I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark. The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. Sermons in stones and good in every thing. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand, sweet song. 
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