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 Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.  Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick." Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, to wretches such as I. God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea. Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days! Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved? Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it, and never hold it. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. The will of man is his happiness. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. 
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