"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation."
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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."
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"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men."
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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."
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"I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver"
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"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked."
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"And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles."
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"You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root."
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"Let your best be for your friend."
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"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
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"I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now."
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"Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away."
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"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."
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"She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind."
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"Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace."
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."
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"Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?"
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"The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill."
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"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
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