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 Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.  When I look at the future, it's so bright, it burns my eyes. Freedom is knowing who you really are. Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. - Lao-Tzu Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter." This is wisdom: to love wine, beauty, and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless. And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself. In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect. Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. What is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at, but I wouldn't like to own one. Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. 
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