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 Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.  Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on. A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose. A nation is a body of people who have done great things together. Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. A man must get a thing before he can forget it. The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us. I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. He does good to himself who does good to his friend. - Erasmus If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. 
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