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The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
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In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
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When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.
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Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
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Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.
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Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
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Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
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Your love keeps me afloat but will remain the anchor in my soul... I don't really have words to describe how romantic I find that. Your love is what keeps me going, but it's also the anchor that keeps me close to you. I love it!
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When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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O Woman, you are not merely the handiwork of God, but also of men; these are ever endowing you with beauty from their own hearts … You are one-half woman and one-half dream.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
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The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps - does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.
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