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 She's not moody. She's just known for her versatility of emotions.  Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again. Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move. Joy is the most infallible sign of the Presence of God. It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. Deep experience is never peaceful. In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents. Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. Better be happy than wise. The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer, but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer. Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay. Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. It wad frae money a blunder free us, And foolish notion. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. 
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