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 Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.  Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government; while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend" it. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. The present is an eternal now. Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions. Success is a great healer. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time. I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic. Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con-tently. Literature is news that stays news. There seemed to be endless obstacles ... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. 
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