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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
    ― Rumi
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: inspirational-love, misattributed
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “All good things are wild and free.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    William Blake
    “When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”
    ― William Blake
    tags: enemies, friends
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: enemies, mistakes, strategy
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    Charles Mackay
    “You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
    ― Charles Mackay
    tags: cowardice, enemies, friendship
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    Paul Newman
    “A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
    ― Paul Newman
    tags: character, enemies
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    Tim Fargo
    “Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, aptitude, attain, attainable, attainment, capacity, competency, difficulty, enemies, enemy, friend, friendship, friendship-true-and-loyal, hard-times, hard-work, hardship, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, persevere, potential, potential-for-greatness, pressure, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, talent, talented
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    Criss Jami
    “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: accusations, allies, belief, believing, connection, discernment, doubt, enemies, faithfulness, fake-friends, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, friendships-and-love, guilt, haters, honesty, innocence, judgment, love, love-and-friendship, loyalty, misunderstood, opposition, questions, relationship, sincerity, skepticism, suspicion, trust, trusting, truth, understanding
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Beware the man of a single book.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
    tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.”
    ― St. Thomas Aquinas
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    Thomas Aquinas
    “Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding. Take from me the double darkness in which I have been born, an obscurity of sin and ignorance. Give me a keen understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things correctly and fundamentally. Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations and the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm. Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in the completion.”
    ― Thomas Aquinas
    tags: aquinas, prayer, scholars
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    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: political
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