"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

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"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

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"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

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"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."

Lord Acton, British Historian

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"Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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"After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer."

William R. Alger, American Writer

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"Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"The only substance properly so called is the soul."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."

Guillaume Apollinaire, French Novelist

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"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."

Minna Antrim, American Writer

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