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 One sword keeps another in the sheath.  The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children. The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. World War II was the last government program that really worked. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. - Bible My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer. Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer. - Goethe If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory. I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. Keep your promises to yourself. Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. 
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