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 Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.  Everyone to his taste. When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. Danger can never by overcome without taking risks. Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns. We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done. An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope. Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. Taste is the feminine of genius. It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have. The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use. Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here. The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." - Voltaire 
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