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 The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.  The body manifests what the mind harbors. I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. A word of advice, don't give it. If a little labour, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains. It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly. What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but it didn't work for the rabbit! The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. - Voltaire Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree. But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks. The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. The best proof of love is trust. Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear. Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences. This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. 
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