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 Faith is the little night-light that burns in a sick-room; as long as it is there, the obscurity is not complete, we turn towards it and await the daylight.  The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. - Junius The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want. - Moliere Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends. One faces the future with one's past. Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies. The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons? It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume. There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere. The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward. 
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