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 Charity looks at the need, not at the cause.  I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt. Congenial labor is essence of happiness. We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid. Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. - Plautus Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. The happy people are those who are producing something. People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. - Ovid The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced. Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new. Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair the rest of his life. Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage-and that's the same thing. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. 
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