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 An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.  Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it. Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little. Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends. Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. God gave burdens, also shoulders. The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. He is more within us than we are ourselves. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. 
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