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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at h...  
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celesti...   Poetry
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do n...  
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind...  
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.  
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.  
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the...  
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times ...  
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcan...   Art
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.  
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the ...  
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine ...   Religion
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woe...   Equality
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or...   Death
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.   Faith
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.  
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the cara...  
For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?   Death
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind...   Nature
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.  
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than ...  
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it...  
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a ...  
I am ungrateful to these teachers.  
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist ...  
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intoler...  
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolera...  
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in ...   Religion
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silen...  
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter a...  
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidd...   Religion
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that...   Business
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were alway...  
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind ...  
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?  
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of p...  
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which ...  
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.  
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbe...  
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.   Politics
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.   Love
Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all tha...  
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it ...  
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to ac...  
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity...   Faith
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a l...  
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for E...  
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.  
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictio...   Poetry
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a ...  
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what w...  
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.  
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.  
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end ...  
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem b...  
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to ...  
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and ...   Dreams
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it sim...  
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came...  
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of ...  
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter...  
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.  
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see th...  
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and se...   Time
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has ...  
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.  
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have...  
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follow...  
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thi...   Politics
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewin...  
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and ste...  
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it i...  
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of th...  
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer an...  
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grav...  
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but ...  
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only w...  
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into m...  
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.  
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But toda...  
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent fo...  
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you ...  
You have your ideology and I have mine.  
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also ...  
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters o...  
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by...  
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understandin...  
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does ...