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 It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.  Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. You cannot know what you cannot feel. It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. Ah love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mold it nearer to the heart's desire! Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down. Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. City life - millions of people being lonesome together. Adults are just children who earn money. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things. At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned. The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere. When you're all dressed up and no place to go. Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar. I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better. Success is not so much what you are, but rather what you appear to be. 
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