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Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere? The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally. If your time hasn't come, not even a doctor can kill you. Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve. Custom is the law of fools. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance. Don't let other people tell you what you want. Act-act in the living Present! Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Great thoughts come from the heart.
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