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 There is no education like adversity.  A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique. Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it. Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion. Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops. Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all. The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous. I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion. For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be. There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more. He who will not economize will have to agonize. 
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