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 The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.  Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear. - Bible Love is anterior to life Posterior to death Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath. There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high. France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties. My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character. Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner. It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray. - Aesop Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. 
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