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 I never realized that there was history, close at hand, beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.  Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention. Anxiety is fear of one's self. she: Before we got married, you told me you were well-off. he: I was, and I didn't know it. The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. Everything comes if a man will only wait. Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. What you praise you increase. It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing. Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value. I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side. 
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