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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.

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They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

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

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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

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Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

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

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A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

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If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

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Life is the mistress to be wooed.

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I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

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