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“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”
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“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”
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“Be with Allah, You will find Allah with you.”
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“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord”
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“When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.”
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“How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.”
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“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'”
Source : "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.
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“All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.”
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“He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.”
Source : Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.55, Shambhala Publications
