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 Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation. - Goethe  Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. 'Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. Time was made for slaves. A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking. The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensations in ever-growing calm. Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact. Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything. The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. You increase your joy by increasing the pure joy of others. 
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