"When it is darkest, we can see the stars."
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"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope."
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"The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not."
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"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute."
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"To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem."
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"A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend."
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"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight."
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"To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval."
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"Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy."
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"The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity."
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"The surest poison is time."
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"All diseases run into one, old age."
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"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."
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"The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."
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"In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism."
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
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"Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity."
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"The key to every man is his thought."
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"The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men."
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"It is one soul which animates all men."
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