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 Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.  It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish. The mother of all living. - Bible The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman. The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public? I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women. By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. Time is a river without banks. Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. 
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