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 All great men come out of the middle classes.  Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. If a little knowledge is dangerous - where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment. Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example, I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40. Love me, love my dog. They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. - Matthew One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. - Erasmus Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time. Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. Self-praise is no recommendation. 
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