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 Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.  Out of love you can speak with straight fury. Man's best support is a very dear friend. - Cicero My only sketch, profile, of heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them. Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee. The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities. The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. Jesus was born on a bank holiday and died on a bank holiday. We can therefore assume that when he returns again it will also be on a bank holiday. Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen. Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long. The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last. I take all knowledge to be my province. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. 
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