"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

Camus, Albert on charm
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"If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

Camus, Albert on sin
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

Buddha on belief
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"You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself."

Buddha on spirituality
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

Shakespeare, William on excuses
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"Men at sometime are the masters of their fate."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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"They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Shakespeare, William on deception
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"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy."

Gibran, Kahlil on work
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Gibran, Kahlil on fun
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"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."

Gibran, Kahlil on futility
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on kindness
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided."

Ruckett on art
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"He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise."

Blake, William on joy
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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