"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
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"That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man."
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"Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body"
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"Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice."
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"Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord."
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"God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith."
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"O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless."
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"A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption."
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"You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it."
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"History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
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"And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons."
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"We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians."
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"The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor."
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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."
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"You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."
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"A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong."
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"Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep"
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"You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For those who limp go not backwards. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness."
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