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 If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.  Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them. Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. Believe that you can whip the enemy, and you have won half the battle. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. - Bible Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts, but this is not true of a family tree. An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use. To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him. One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion. Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. True happiness consists in making others happy. It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. To all, to each, a fair goodnight, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered. We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked. The present is the living sum-total of the whole past. In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. 
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