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 In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.  When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners. "So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter." Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good. As an actor, he should be an extra in police line-ups. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake up. Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty. Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit? No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. There is no movement without our own resistance. Silence is more eloquent than words. Sadness is a state of sin. 
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