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 Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian.  What is human is immortal! Violence is, essentially, a confession of ultimate inarticulateness. I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress. It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. Just when I need Him, He is my all, Answering when upon Him I call; Tenderly watching lest I should fall. By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible. There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea. It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar. We are all born mad. Some remain so. Kissing don't last: cookery do. The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. Success has killed more men than bullets. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. 
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