Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Grief   
Depress   
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Children   
Greatness   
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Truth   
Poverty   
Greatness   
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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.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Beauty   
Truth   
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Subject:
Beauty   
Freedom   
Courage   
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Subject:
Character   
Endings   
Courage   
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Subject:
Arrogance   
Humility   
Personality   
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Subject:
Giving   
Survival   
Sacrifice   
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Subject:
Endings   
Time   
Spiritual   
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Subject:
Forgiveness   
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Curiosity   
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Desires   
Human Nature   
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Subject:
Philosophical   
Parable   
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Knowledge   
Art   
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Where is the justice of political power if it... marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Subject:
War   
Politics   
Justice   
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Greed   
Hereafter   
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Subject:
Progress   
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
Subject:
Belief   
Idea   
Thinking   
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Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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