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"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
"He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life."
"Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom."
"I believe that even as your fathers came to this land to produce riches, you were born here to produce riches by intelligence, by labor. I believe that it is in you to be good citizens."
"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to."
"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."
"I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself."
"I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul. I was living apart from this self which you now see."
"We whose senses have been dulled, we gaze in full daylight and yet we do not see. We would cup our ears, but we do not hear; and stretch forth our hands, but we do not touch."
"Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting."
"Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?"
"I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
"Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit. Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing."
"Love and what generates it. Rebellion and what creates it. Liberty and what nourishes it. Three manifestations of God. And God is the conscience of the rational world."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate."
"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach."
"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me and demonstrating to me that I am not exalted over the panhandler nor less than the mighty."
"My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying."
"Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
