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I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

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Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

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

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Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

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