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 Quality is not an act. It is a habit.  With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more. Fire destroys that which feeds it. A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. - Matthew No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. The pen is mightier than the sword. No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause. After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled, "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!" I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left. He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. God loves to help him who strives to help himself. After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile. On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be. It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force. Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. 
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