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 I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.  Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can ... do big things. AH I know is what I see in the papers. The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men. Help me, Cassius, or I sink! Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it. I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. Fear is the highest fence. I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet. The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today. [My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. The changing year's progressive plan Proclaims mortality to man. - Horace We die as often as we lose a friend. The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out. 
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