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 Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.  Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises. The first man is of the earth, earthy. - Bible You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her. The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being. Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... He who has faith has ... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well-even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. All know the way, few actually walk it. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves. Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail. I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so. The bird, a nest; the spider, a web; man, friendship. 0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain. What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. Adversity introduces a man to himself. When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland. What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them? Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. 
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