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A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.
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God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.
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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
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It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.
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You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.
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To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
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Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them but because it's true.
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When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
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Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me
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Don't change your mind just because people are offended change your mind if you're wrong.
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Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
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If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
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When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
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