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 Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.  Begin doing what you want to do now. When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination. The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. We are made kind by being kind. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. My wife and I have many arguments, but she only wins half of them. My mother-in-law wins the other half. Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold. To burn always with this hard gemlike flame. To maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. Losses are comparative, only imagination makes them of any moment. Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life. I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun. I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view. The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind. - Virgil 
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