All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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Words   
Mind   
Philosophical   
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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Desires   
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Giving   
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Truth   
Parable   
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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God   
Just   
Compassion   
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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Difficulty   
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Truth   
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Knowledge   
Understand   
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Poetry   
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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.
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Change   
Time   
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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Truth   
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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Common Sense   
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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Advice   
Action   
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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Children   
Parents   
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Soul   
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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Philosophical   
Parable   
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
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Knowledge   
Learning   
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Wisdom   
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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Work   
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Beauty   
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