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 I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.  It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why. In everything one must consider the end. Jesters do often prove prophets. Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want. All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain. It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience. Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive, inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all. She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. A word spoken in good season, how good it is! - Proverbs Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. They are able because they think they are able. - Virgil The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. - Seneca 
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