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 He who lives in the present lives in eternity.  All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today. The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued. Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She started one day In the relative way And came back on the previous night. In all human affairs there are efforts, there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. What thou thyself hatest, do to no man. Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. On the day of his death, in his eightieth year, Elliot, 'the Apostle of the Indians,' was found teaching an Indian child at his bedside. 'Why not to rest from your labours now?' asked a friend. 'Because,' replied the venerable man, 'I have prayed God to render me useful in my sphere, and he has heard my prayers; for now that I can no longer preach, he leaves me strength enough to teach this poor child the alphabet.' Fatalism is a lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. I am a part of all I have read. The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. Good luck needs no explanation. O God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. 
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