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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Book Evidence Lie Writing
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.
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Believe Blessing Faith Myself Perfection
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother’s love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
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Animal Difference Emotional Human Intellectual Love Mom Worry
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
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Action Goodness Important Purpose
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
There are eight levels of charity. The highest is when you strengthen a man’s hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
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Charity Hands Man Strength
Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
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Character Lie Man Wisdom
Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.
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Body Comfortable Emotional Grief Pain
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
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Change Comfortable Experience Feeling Gratitude Happiness Help Worst
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.
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Death Evil Existence Leaving Reality Success
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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