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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
H. P. Blavatsky
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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