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 It is native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb -and not culture, or any intellect whatever.  In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. - Panin Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or triple our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long. You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. Happiness is not the end of life; character is. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. Hope is a satisfaction unto itself, and need not be fulfilled to be appreciated. My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.' The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands. Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded. What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. - Voltaire Have the courage of your desire. A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? 
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