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Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
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Better Death Guilty Oneself Person Satisfaction
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Hear the truth from whomever says it.
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One Liner Truth
Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
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
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
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Doctor Sick Suffering
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
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
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Charity Help Himself Man
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 cannot be compared to anything.
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God One Liner
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
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

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

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