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 Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.  The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming. I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly. I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is, perhaps, cowardice. All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. How can you write if you can't cry? When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm, a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life. Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat? Life is the childhood of our immortality. - Goethe In Adam's fall - We sinned all. A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man. In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. One starts an action simply because one must do something. 
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