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 It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.  A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. - Bible The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works. Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on. The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. - Bible Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Today is yesterday's pupil. A joy that's shared is a joy made double. No man is demolished but by himself. 
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