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 O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse.  Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious. That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine. To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god. I think with my right hand. Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness." Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that. I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it. - Edelgard The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. 
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