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 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.  Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. I love humanity but I hate people. It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either. Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved? If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off. If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. - Martial 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. So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.' It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself, and no one else, has made it. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age. What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rain. All wars are popular for the first 30 days. For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered. Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness. 
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