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 Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.  Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship. God made the country, and man made the town. I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll. We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. To keep clear of concealment, to keep clear of the need of concealment, to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched, then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can. I can't believe that out of a hundred thousand sperm, you were the quickest. Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. A friend is like a poem. Every why hath a wherefore. What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment. Make use of time, let not advantage slip. We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. - Juvenal Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. Sum up at night what thou has done by day. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. 
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