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 He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.  I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. - Bible The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain. Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us. The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. Leisure is the mother of philosophy. No man's credit is as good as his money. I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly. Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion. Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. 
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