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 Sadness and gladness succeed each other.  If you ask the hungry man how much is two and two, he replies four loaves. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her. Speech is silvern, silence is golden. The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will. He says he's not broke, but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas. It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness. Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen. As the Greek said, "Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God. Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. - Bible What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended. The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable. If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers. 
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