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 Where more is meant than meets the ear.  I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do. When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. True friendship is self-love at second hand. Life on the farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it. We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration. Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it. 
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