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 Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once; a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.  An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. Matrimony, - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. Riches either serve or govern the possessor. - Horace Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses. Great men are not always wise. - Bible How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. Never eat more than you can lift. The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there. I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being. Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. 
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