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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.  He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. - Aesop Time is eternity begun. The doctor, if he forgets he is only the assistant to nature and zealously takes over the stage, may so add to what nature is already doing well that he actually throws the patient into shock by the vigour he adds to nature's forces. I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself ... and wins. A stout heart breaks bad luck. Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. Let time that makes you homely, make you sage. Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of "deals," or compromises, between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations. Strong people don't need strong leaders. Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses. When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too. Men whose trade is rat-catching, love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice. Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people. Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument. Work is the best method devised for killing time. The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees. It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. 
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