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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

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We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

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No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

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I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

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Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

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Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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People mistake their limitations for high standards.

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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

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Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

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This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

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A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

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Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.

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I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

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