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 There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.  Autumn is the bite of a harvest apple. Language is the armoury of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests. Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes. Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change! Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen. There is no data on the future. Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go. All that a man hath will he give for his life. - Bible A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find Of governing it well. If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so, too. Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone. The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it. Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. 
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