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 Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.  They sicken of calm, who know the storm. The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others. Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses. Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe. If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy because a man in bad shape isn't gonna cheat. I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. Prayer is the pillow of religion. For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son; It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God. Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Home is not where you live but where they understand you. You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes. The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. 
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