"All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart."
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"And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night."
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"Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination."
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"If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?"
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"You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth."
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"I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?"
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"Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?"
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"Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner."
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"You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire."
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"Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."
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"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."
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"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
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"The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning."
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"The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale."
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"Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?"
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"They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer."
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"Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe."
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"Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name."
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"Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?"
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