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 It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.  The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man, the federation of the world. April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted. - Mae West If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun. Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that! Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire The Court's authority - possessed of neither the purse nor the sword -ultimately rests on substantial public confidence in its moral sanctions. If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough? The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it. Those lose least who have least to lose. Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime. The proud hate pride - in others. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers, the winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms, their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves. 
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