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Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Body Himself Person Power Reflection Respect
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
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.
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Art One Liner Sick
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.
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Generous Yourself
The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both, undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.
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Body Doubt Health Humanity Sick Soul
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known.
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God Himself Knowledge Philosophy Religious
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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Human Limitation Reason Religious Stop
All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.
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Act God Himself Quality
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
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
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
God cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.
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Desire God Ideas Knowledge Man Passion
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Himself Man View Youth
Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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Body Man Philosophy Sin
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
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
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
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Art Human Inspirational Love Myself See Suffering
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
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Difficult Imagination Problem Understand

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