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Vanity prevents improvement
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
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Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave.
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Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.
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How many lessons there are and how little they are taken
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Greed is permanent slavery
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There is no nobility with bad manners.
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Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.
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O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely.
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Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.
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People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.
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Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
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Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
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A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.
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He who guards his secrets retains control in his own hands
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To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man they only reveal him
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
