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 The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."  What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. Doubt breeds doubt. The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. See how time makes all grief decay. You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are. To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor. A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Make yourself necessary to somebody. If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit. The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. Nothing is miserable unless you think it so. - Boethius It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. Soon learnt, soon forgotten. Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds. The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
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