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The Elements
Three
Three things must be united before good can come of them: thinking well, speaking well, and acting well.
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Three things it is everyone's duty to do: listen humbly, answer discreetly, and judge kindly.
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Three things one should keep always before them: their worldly duty, their conscience, and the laws of nature.
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Three things hard to obtain: cold fire, dry water, and lawful covetousness.
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Three reasons to war against fault: to not do to others as you would not have them do to you, that you not be arrogant, that you might always let the light of wisdom shine.
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Three ways to lose excellence: to become a servant to one's passions, to not learn from the examples set by others, to indulge in excess.
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Three companions on the high road to union with the void: a patient poor person, a reflective wise person, and a tolerant reformer.
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Three candles that illuminate every darkness: truth, nature, and knowledge.
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Three things loveable in a person: tranquilty, wisdom, and kindness.
Aldous Huxley
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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