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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.  For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result. Many things are lost for want of asking. In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace. Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow. When I told her we were going to roast her, she said, "Of course, . . . they only crucify the innocent." Poetry is a mug's game. My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you. - O. Henry Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down. If you can't accept losing, you can't win. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside. Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. 
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