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 It's not that I'm too particular. It's just that I'm going to wait for Dr. Right.  The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also. Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. What people say behind your back is your standing in the community. If we be empty and poor, it is not because God's hand is straitened, but ours is not opened. We are always getting ready to live, but never living. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. - Bible I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet. One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one. I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it. Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier. I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. 
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