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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

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If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

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If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

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If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

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We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

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Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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