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 Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. - Boethius  We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison. Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. What we prepare for is what we shall get. To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. Great hopes make great men. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences. Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm. A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein. - Bible There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. 
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