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There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative. Friends are a second existence. Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably. Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes. If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you. Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. The cautious seldom err. Flirtation - attention without intention. One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown, And three with a new song's measure, Can trample an empire down. Deep faith eliminates fear. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever! Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible. Too much agreement kills a chat. You cannot make a crab walk straight. But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex. Happiness is not being pained in body, or troubled in mind.
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