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 No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. - Cicero  Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you. - Bible The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. Dogs often remind us of the human, ail-too human. Cats, never. The head is always the dupe of the heart. A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still. The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. Ambition can creep as well as soar. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Soul appears when we make room for it. In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.' Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working. The historian is a prophet looking backwards. 
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