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 Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.  My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer. As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity. The essence of love is kindness. Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success. There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Plodding wins the race. - Aesop I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself. Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away. Happy [is] the man who knows his duties! [My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests. There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep. You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too. We would be cowards, if we had courage enough. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. - Plato 
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