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 Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.  I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part. A word spoken in good season, how good it is! - Proverbs God bless me and my son John, Me and my wife, him and his wife, Us four, and no more. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. Bad is never good until worse happens. Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever; Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart? Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself. To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. Heaven for climate, hell for company. First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too. O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us, And foolish notion. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time. 
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