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 I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.  What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly. There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? - Romans The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. God enters by a private door into every individual. Of all the young men in America, only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay. The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. - Bible It was a woman who drove me to drink - and, you know, I never even thanked her. Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater. There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings. Envy eats nothing but its own heart. Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Music is the art of thinking with sounds. The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there, like air or food, or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it. 
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