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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

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Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

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How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body."

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

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The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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