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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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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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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 my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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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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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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 pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
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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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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
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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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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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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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