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Quotes by Poet
"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
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"Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity."
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"The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness."
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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
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"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief."
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"The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity."
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"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."
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"Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood."
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"If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"Only this actual moment is life."
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"The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A clearCellophane I cannot crack."
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"The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it."
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"It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation."
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"It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."
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"Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please,With too much spirit to be e'er at ease,With too much quickness ever to be taught,With too much thinking to have common thought:You purchase pain with all that joy can give,And die of nothing but a rage to live."
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"Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is."
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"I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me."
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"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."
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"When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky!"
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"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."
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"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."
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"If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism."
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"...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone..."
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"There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."
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"There are those who fear the sunset, worried they will never see light again. There are those who ignore the sunrise, squandering dawn, believing they will never run out of daylight. And then there are those who have learned to live in the sun's warmth, gauging time by its positions, thankful at night that the day happened. Be aware of time. Use it wisely. Be thankful for the light allotted."
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"Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope."
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"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge."
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"We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one's self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace."
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