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 The soul ... is audible, not visible.  But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much. Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us. Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. Good architecture lets nature in. "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! the flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. Grass grows at last above all graves. If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law. The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. - Voltaire To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life. The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men. Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. Make us happy and you make us good. Two thirds of help is to give courage. Time is the moving image of eternity. - Plato 
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