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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
“Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.”
“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”
“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
“When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”
“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”
“They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.”
“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”
“If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.”
“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”
“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”