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 We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.  Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. One kind word can warm three winter months. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer and forgiveness. Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain. When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing. The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong. Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth. The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you. In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble. - Cy Young Oh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne. The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. - Ovid All the great pleasures in life are silent. 
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