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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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Where is the justice of political power if it... marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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