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If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Their sighing canting grace-proud faces… their three-mile prayers and half-mile graces. The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances. Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. Ideas never keep… So bloody do it...!

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Nothing arouses more hope than the first few hours of a diet. Hope is the dream of the waking man. A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost... When I can dream no longer, I die.

A delay is better than disaster. .

I read part of it all the way through. The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Obligation that comes with freedom is democracy. A well-governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

When men make gods, there is no God! Humility like the darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
This also -- the only gift, is a portion of thyself. That I live I consider a gift of God.



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