“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.