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 Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.  Only great men may have great faults. Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself. Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing. My health is good; it's my age that's bad. Behind every great man there is a surprised woman. All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man. That which is escaped now is pain to come. - Proverbs A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike. In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. I listen and give input only if somebody asks. Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes, and sometimes the water is blue, and the loons cry very often? Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. Life delights in life. 
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