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 To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.  Dare to be naive. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. - Bible Honor your father and your mother. - Bible There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse. The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Growing old - it's not nice, but it's interesting. Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses. Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning. Ask the gods nothing excessive. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right, Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. No pleasure without pain. 
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