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Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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