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 There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. - Bible Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness. Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things. Refusal to hope is nothing more than a decision to die. A man becomes like those whose society he loves. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. To end with certainty, we must begin with doubting. No wonder can last more than three days. Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life. Matrimony, - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. He serves his party best who serves the country best. 
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