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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

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To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

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If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting. The Way has no form or sound. It's subtle and hard to perceive. It's like when you drink water: you know how hot or cold it is, but you can't tell others.

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Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

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My enemy is my greatest teacher.

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It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

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Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

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As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

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Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

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Wise men are not wise at all times.

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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

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