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• Kindness is virtue itself.
• The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness…
• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare…
• We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the…
• My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.
• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
• There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye…
• Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.
• If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare…
• Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
• True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace....

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