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 Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.  I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust so far and no further, is none. Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever. If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. Successful minds work like a gimlet, to a single point. Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. In his private heart no man much respects himself. We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart. He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life. Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out. 
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