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 Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.  Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Bible For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little. I am a part of all that I have met. Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts," probably lost. Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value. Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. But I do hate him as I hate the devil. One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it. If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it. The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. The thing I fear most is fear. 
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