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 Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.  No one in this world needs a mink coat but a mink. The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world. Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail. The way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know. - Ovid I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark. A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent. Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach. It takes courage to live-courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Faith is the proper name of religious experience. Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse. The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. The fewer the words, the better prayer. Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. 
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