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 Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou, thyself, movest alone.  A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. People who never get carried away should be. I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father. A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. The little Road says, Go; The little House says, Stay; And oh, it's bonny here at home, But I must go away. A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride. Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not. - Bible The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. Christianity is part of the Common Law of England. I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside. To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either. God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say. 
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