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 There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.  I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled. The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees. - Bible Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs. A secretary must think like a man, act like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog. I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. - Henry IV All my possessions for a moment of time. Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear. - Cicero The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine. The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient. My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India. 
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