"For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow."
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"Life is the mistress to be wooed."
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"The envier praises me unknowingly."
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"Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death."
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"When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other"
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"Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are."
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"I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us."
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"The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds."
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"Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment."
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"In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long."
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"But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears."
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"For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite."
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"You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living."
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"Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight."
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"Art is a step in the known toward the unknown"
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"A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features."
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"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."
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"Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey"
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"My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun."
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"The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation."
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