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Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. When things come to the worst, they generally mend. Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers? Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it. Our passions are ourselves. Love conquers all. You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary. When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. Light tomorrow with today! Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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