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 One filled with joy preaches without preaching.  Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good. Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need. No man's credit is as good as his money. The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present. A house is a machine for living. It is not the talking that counts between friends, it is the never needing to say what counts. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak. Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work. Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. I always keep myself in a position of being a student. Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. God helps those who help themselves. Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. 
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