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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Alms Better Cannot Distaste
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Arrows Bows Children Forth
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art Concealed Obvious Step
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Bliss Complete Created Eternal
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Attain All Desire Spirits
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Being Bigger Eye Human
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Because Consider I See Me
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Between Come Difference Dream
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Atoms Characteristics Incumbent Know
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Calls Consider Despise False
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Beautiful Being End Human
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Advance Advancing Blood Corrupt
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Body Heart Love Sacrifice
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Against Divinity Follow Footsteps
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Contempt Know Me Toward
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Generosity Giving Me More
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Body Liberty Life Like
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Coming Equality Generations Learn
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Bliss Came Consider Gloom
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Beauty Before Bent Follow
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Bow Church I Love I Love You
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Before Grandfather Had He
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Bleak Desert Like Rebellion
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Am Behold Bein End
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Appeal Covering Face Greatness
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Brother Doubt Faith His
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Blame Reveal Revealing Secrets
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Give Little Possessions Truly
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Bare Bare Feet Delights Earth
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Dash Deal Dictionary Joy
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Bid Does Enter His
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty Eternity Gazing Itself
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Beginning Of Knowledge Perplexity
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Between Gardens Sadness Two
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You have your ideology and I have mine.

Ideology Mine You Your
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Among Dreams Gold He
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Away Awe-Inspiring Clearly Far
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Among Follow Hard Hidden
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Divides Doctrine Like Many
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Give Joy Reward Those
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Crumbs Down Fall Feast
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Close God Heart Just
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Am I Am I Have Learned Intolerant
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Breaking Pain Shell Understanding
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Abundance Also Days Distress
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Been Depth Ever Hour
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Beauty Chief First Found
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Away Before Bow Children
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

World Beautiful Terrible Thing
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