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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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Age considers; youth ventures.

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

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