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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.
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Charity Money Poor
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
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others, for the knowledge of the truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Fight Hate Injury Knowledge Man Relationship Truth Wisdom
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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Knowledge Understand Word
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
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Lose Right Truth Wrong
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
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
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 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
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
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Acceptance Blessing Generosity
A truth does not become greater by repetition.
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Greatness Truth
Hold firmly to your word.
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One Liner Word Yourself
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

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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