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 Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.  States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. - Plato To keep clear of concealment, to keep clear of the need of concealment, to do nothing that he might not do out on the middle of Boston Common at noonday -I cannot say how more and more that seems to me to be the glory of a young man's life. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding anything comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects that must not be touched, then the bloom of life is gone. Put off that day as long as possible. Put if off forever if you can. A good sweat, with the blood pounding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others. Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and make the most of one's resources. Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Happy the man who can count his sufferings. - Ovid Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left. Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures. A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral. The bird of time has but a little way To flutter - and the bird is on the wing. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London. The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. - Ouida 
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