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For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

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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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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

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Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

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Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

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Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul

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It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

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Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

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