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The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.
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I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me
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