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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural. The measure of an enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart. Love is letting go of fear. Sanity is very rare; every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness. We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Experience is the extract of suffering. Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
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