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 If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.  When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? One who has both feet firmly planted in the air. Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures. Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Friendship is love without his wings! The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved. The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer. If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff. I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him? Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. - Bible O wad some power the giftie gie us to see some people before they see us. Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind. Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. 
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