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 I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.  This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails, you have another meeting. We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation. If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it. It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through. Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time. A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. 
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