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 To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.  What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others. Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke. My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you. - O. Henry Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. One man's wage rise is another man's price increase. The iron entered into his soul. - Bible A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement. The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself. Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me? The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"; God always answers with what we need. No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it. Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 
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