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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which t...more

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He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is re...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many b...more

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favored heroes attain-not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixt...more