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 Oozing charm from every pore, He oiled his way around the floor.  No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity. - Hesiod It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. - Bible "So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter." I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress. Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks. Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks. The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things. Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance. A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. There must be more to life than having everything! All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child, learn from incense How best to pray. Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth? 
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