"It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them."
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"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good."
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"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."
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"Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations."
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"Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress."
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"The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong."
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"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
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"Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart."
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"The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul."
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"Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms."
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"The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken."
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"What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow."
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"My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more."
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"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves."
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"Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape."
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"My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die."
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"Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection."
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"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."
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"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."
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