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 An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. - Juvenal  No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none. There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish. I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me. All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income. That's not writing, that's typing. To make a mountain of a mole-hill. There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not. You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion. The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness. The heights by men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. Boredom: the desire for desires. Sleep: The golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. 
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