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"Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born."
"For love is sufficient unto love."
"Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
"What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think."
"The silence of the envious is too noisy."
"God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
"We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words."
"Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself."
"Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry."
"A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes."
"When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us."
"Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring."
"Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one."
"And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children."
"Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free."
"The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it."
"To be closer to god, be closer to people."
"Love is the veil between lover and lover."