"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

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"How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?"

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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."

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"Events are influenced by our very great desires."

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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

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"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead."

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"There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual."

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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

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