"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

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"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

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"It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free."

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"Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings."

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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."

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"Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home."

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"From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one."

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"Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty."

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"The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it."

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"Show me the person ready to step from any, let it be the narrowest, sect of Christian Pharisees into a freer and holier air, and I shall look to find in that person the one of that sect who, in the midst of its darkness and selfish worldliness, mistaken for holiness, has been living a life more obedient than the rest."

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"To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God."

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