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 For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.  If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger. Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results. To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore. When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter. A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees. Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. - Bible If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. she: Before we got married, you told me you were well-off. he: I was, and I didn't know it. Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home-if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful. Whatever limits us we call Fate. 
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