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 What man can imagine he may one day achieve.  When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of 'not going'! Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep. Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. True happiness consists in making others happy. It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Toronto has no social classes - only the Masseys and the masses. I believe the greatest asset a Head of State can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep. I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern. It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Make use of time, let not advantage slip. 
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