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 Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.  A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die. To Be is to live with God. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be. True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare. I was never less alone than when by myself., I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock, and as he reached the climax of his exhortation, a man in the front row got up and said, 'O Lord, use me. Use me, O Lord - in an advisory capacity!' The very hairs of your head are all numbered. - Matthew Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home. Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. - Bible The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. Dad named his first ulcer after me. 
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