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 Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. - Polybius  A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you. That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then-do not worry. Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1,048,576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again. The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick. There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Love is a great beautifier. If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape. There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there's a reason. 
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