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 Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.  The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them. I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves. If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere. The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. - Martial Our mothers and our grandmothers, some of them: moving to music not yet written. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more. Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky. Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning. God same me from my friends, I can protect myself from my enemies. So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. It is not right to exult over slain men. - Homer We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well. For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. 
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