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 He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear. - Claudian  Faith is a kind of betting, or speculation. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. He that endureth to the end shall be saved. - Bible Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than on what he ought to expect from them. Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met. The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves. He was not of an age but for all time. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing. The English nation is never so great as in adversity. When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought. All this, and Heaven too! Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier. Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand. 
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