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 Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.  What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all. He that seeks trouble always finds it. When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Better silent than stupid. I am the only real truth I know. Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. - Bible I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills. Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument. Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity. The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Gray hair is God's graffiti. 
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