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 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.  Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Only the shallow know themselves. It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed; courage to change what should be changed; and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour. She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. A mistake is simply another way of doing things. If you want to be found, stand where the seeker seeks. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there. Vengeance is sweet. Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it. 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. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work. The better part of valour is discretion. 
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