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 If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.  A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. One is easily fooled by that which one loves. - Moliere In everything one must consider the end. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments. For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. Here's a good rule of thumb Too clever, is dumb. Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, some of them will turn into friends. - John Hay It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow. (Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent. The moment of change is the only poem. It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail. I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct? Get thee behind me, Satan. - Matthew Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college. 
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