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/ page 298 of 1205 /To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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