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 We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.  He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. - Bible The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Brotherton So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics. A man is a lion in his own cause. If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping. Duration is not a test of true or false. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men ... crisis shows us what we have become. Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do. Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead. I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if He ever had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer. Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers, and severely by answering them. Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgement. It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents. 
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