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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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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
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Bed Heart Listen Yourself
Silence is the maturation of wisdom.
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One Liner Silence Wisdom
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.
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Greatness Nation Rule Wisdom Worth
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.
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Belief Desire End Evil God Hate Ignorance Knowledge Man Religious
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
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
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
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
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
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Decision Deep Risk Wrong
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
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Avoid Beginning Philosophy Simplicity Talk
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
He who does not understand that a dead lion is more alive than a living dog will remain a dog.
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Alive Dog Himself Live Understand
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.
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Book Evil Greatness Grief Man Old Sick Thinking True Writing
Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.
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Doctor Food
Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
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Equality Evil Goodness Man Philosophy See View World

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