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To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.