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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
In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.
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Body Far Force Soul Spiritual
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.
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Believe Existence Man Philosophy
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
Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
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Disease Fools Science Sick Tree Value
Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
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Angel Mission Trust
It is man’s duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
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Fear God Hope Love Man Punishment Reward
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
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
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
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
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
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

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