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 I thank you for not snoring.  What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. No good man ever became suddenly rich. - Syrus Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. - Seneca Never exaggerate your faults; your friends will attend to that. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. Little things affect little minds. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering. God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly, I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses. O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter. Blessings never come in pairs; misfortunes never come alone. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to. 
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