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1. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
2. Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear.
3. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest mistakes. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.
4. "Our birth is the text. Youth the introduction. During manhood we lay down a few propositions and prove them. Some passages are dull and some sprightly. Then come Inferences and Application. At seventy we say, 'Fifthly and lastly.' The Doxology is sung. The Benediction is pronounced. The book is closed. It is getting cold. Frost on the window pane. Audience gone. Shut up the church. Sexton goes home with the key on his shoulder."
5. "We want to live forever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do we want to live tomorrow? It is because there is some one who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back."
6. "Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love."
7. "Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
8. "Ideas are funny little things. They won't work unless you do."
9. "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
10. "You'll always stay young if live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, and worship faithfully."
