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joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

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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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Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

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You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

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Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

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You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

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Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

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Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

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My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

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For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

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Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

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