"How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?"
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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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"A root is a flower that disdains fame."
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"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
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"A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue."
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"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."
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"The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man"
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"Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody."
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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."
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"The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
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"Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures."
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"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
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"Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder."
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"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
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"Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born"
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"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
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"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
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"All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors."
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"I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles."
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"The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead."
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