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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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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 we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

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I love those who yearn for the impossible.

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

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One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

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The French cook; we open tins.

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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

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Headlines twice the size of the events.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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