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I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small, as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience. China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory. I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me. The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death. Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. Poetry is not a profession, it's a destiny. The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Fear has a smell, as Love does. Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king. Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic? Charity looks at the need, not at the cause. God forgives those who invent what they need. We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. I was never less alone than when by myself., As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you. A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
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