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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

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EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

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You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

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Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.

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I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

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