“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
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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.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.