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 To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.  O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative. In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time. Man appoints, and God disappoints. There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings. The point... is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when turning upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances. The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm. There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi? I can resist everything except temptation. Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his busmess. How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. No faith is our own that we have not arduously won. An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics], so let's just think of this as empty. 
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