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 As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.  She represents the country Alamonia. A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind. A man surprised is half beaten. Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength, there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? The fragrance of what you give away stays with you. Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. To improve your memory, lend people money. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination. In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. Mistakes are often the best teachers. When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. Familiarity breeds contempt. 
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