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 A hero is a man who does what he can.  Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility. As the world is wearie of me so am I of it. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have. I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more. Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained, what there they found, - Freedom to worship God. Pride is the mask of one's own faults. It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. Better be too credulous than too skeptical When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything worth doing. Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spenser is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself. No one from the beginning of time has had security. 
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