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 Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.  What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived. There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. A dog wags its tail with its heart. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go. - Goethe A man must learn to forgive himself. Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Men are cruel, but man is kind. Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef, love, like being enlivened with champagne. We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least. England and America are two countries separated by the same language. The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? 
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