"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

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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."

Love, Work, Temple, Joy

"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."

Dream, Memory, Today, Tomorrow

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

Love, Beauty, Truth, Kings

"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."

Life, Children, Daughters, Longing

"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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"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

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"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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