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 The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less.  Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. I will not change just to court popularity. This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. - Aesop Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget. My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. "Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once." It is the commonest prayer in all languages. I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice. Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door. Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. True happiness consists in making others happy. As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he. Courage is a peculiar kind of fear. 
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