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 Reason is the triumph of the intellect, faith of the heart.  If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Syrus We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand. A garden is a lovesome thing - God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Fern grot - The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not. - Not God in gardens! When the sun is cool? Nay, but I have a sign! 'Tis very sure God walks in mine. Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment. Even a small star shines in the darkness. Just when I need Him, He is my all, Answering when upon Him I call; Tenderly watching lest I should fall. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it. Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads. Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up. I'm not the heroic type, really. I was beaten up by Quakers. Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson. 
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