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 There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.  True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. There are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me. Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. The mere sense of living is joy enough. Fear is the prison of the heart. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious. Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever, is dumb. Things are beautiful if you love them. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well. The key to change ... is to let go of fear. 
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