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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
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What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
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I cannot choose the best.
The best chooses me.
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Rest belongs to the work as the eyelids to the eyes. 注
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Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.注
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God expects answers for the flowers he sends us, not for the sun and the earth.
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O bauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.
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Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love. 注
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The bird wishes it were a cloud.
The cloud wishes it were a bird.
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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence.
It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.注
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Woman, when you move about in your household service your limbs sing like a hill stream among its pebbles.注
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Do not blame your food because you have no appetite.
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The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing,
But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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He has made his weapons his gods.
When his weapons win he is defeated himself. 注
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.注
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While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin, the moon rises, and the glass lamp, with a bland smile, calls her, "My dear, dear sister."注
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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Thank the flame for its light, but do not forget the lampholder standing in the shade with constancy of patience.
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Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.
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Wrong cannot afford defeat but Right can.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Man barricades against himself.
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
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He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
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In death the many becomes one; in life the one becomes many.
Religion will be one when God is dead.
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Power said to the world, "You are mine.
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.
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The mist is like the earth's desire.
It hides the sun for whom she cries. 注
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The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the Eternal.
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Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
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Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
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Roots are the branches down in the earth.
Branches are roots in the air. 注
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Do not insult your friend by lending him merits from your own pocket.注
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The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
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The sun has his simple robe of light. The clouds are decked with gorgeousness.
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The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved.
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If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
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God's great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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The Great walks with the Small without fear.
The Middling keeps aloof.
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When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.注
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Love! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand, I can see your face and know you as bliss.
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Darkness travels towards light, but blindness towards death.
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Sit still my heart, do not raise your dust.
Let the world find its way to you.
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24 “belong”这个词很妙：休息属于工作。没有了工作也就无所谓休息，只有体会到工作的劳累才能品尝到休息的甜美。
25 “power of growth”成长的力量，他的力量在于不断成长。
33 注意“by”字。
37 即便是一件一件不起眼的小事，积攒起来了也会影响心情。
38 不管是什么主义，劳动人民都是最美丽的。
45 什么是真正的力量？“权力意志”意志的是什么？在自以为理解了之前，我们足够的反思过么？
53 在我们对别人的媚态感到恶心的时候，扪心自问，我们自己就从没巴结过谁么？
94 欲望破坏了快乐，却又渴求着快乐。
103 想象力真丰富。
105 可是今天的社会上有太多的人不知羞耻，或许他们拥有的只是乌合之众，还不配称之为朋友。
159 果实成熟了，也就要离开大树了。从果树来看，收获意味着奉献。