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 The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.  Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity. A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. - Mohammed A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. I hope you live to be as old as your jokes. If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value. Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard. I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be. I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all. The body manifests what the mind harbors. To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face. Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. 
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