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 When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.  The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life. Trust in God, and keep your powder dry. The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau, filling up the small spaces with small things. Nature's mighty law is change. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits. There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway. In this world we must help one another. He's so old his social security number is two digits. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. They are able who think they are able. - Virgil When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. The busy have no time for tears. A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%. 
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