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 A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.  Fear is faith that it won't work out. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business. The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days. Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. - Syrus When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray. When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them. I've put my genius into my life; I've only put my talent into my works. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch. There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted. 
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