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Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
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Philosophy Truth Virtue World
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 more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
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Easy Live Necessary
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
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
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Destroy Enemy Friendship Myself
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
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
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
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
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Existence God Home
What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.
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Kindness Language Word
Your purpose, should always be to know, the whole that was intended to be known.
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Philosophy Purpose Yourself
All forces that reside in the body are angels.
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Angel Body Force Self Love
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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Charity Poor
Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress.
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Improvement Myself Progress Teaching
The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.
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Goal Goodness Health Wisdom

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.

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