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 A thing of beauty is a joy forever.  What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter, it's the belief that counts. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. Christian life consists in faith and charity. Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. Those who lose dreaming are lost. Courage is the right disposition toward fear. I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change. The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks. Danger can never by overcome without taking risks. "The good old days." The only good days are ahead. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second. True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. 
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