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 Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.  What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Bible Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same." In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody. My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it. Divorce is a game played by lawyers. A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it. If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. I care. I care a lot. I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring, and anxiety. It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. 
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