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John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.
Father | Forethought | Honor | Purpose | Purpose | Regard | Will | Child |
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Blessedness | Enough | Evil | Experience | Fear | Knowledge | Little | Lord | Love | Order | Soul | Trust | Understanding | Will | Words |
With the help of our guardian angel we can try to see it reflected in God as in a mirror, for we will never come to know ourselves if we do not try to know God.
Religion directs man to God not as its object but as its end.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.
Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
What is needed is a move beyond tradition -- nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age.
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Our Sages were enemies of ignorance. They regarded education, intellectual enlightenment, and the acquisition of knowledge as the first of all moral commandments. They viewed the dissemination of intellectual enlightenment among all classes of the population as the prime concern of the nation, and the training of a child's mind as the first and most sacred duty of fatherhood. They considered it a matter of conscience for every Jewish father to see that his child should not remain a boor and am ha'arets; no Jewish child must be allowed to grow up as an ignorant, uneducated person.
Children | Evil | Fulfillment | Isolation | Nations | Need | Obligation | Order | People | Practice | Praise | Purpose | Purpose | Redemption | Vows | Torah |
For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind
When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, whose few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery.
Ambition | Blessings | Heaven | Men | Providence | Purpose | Purpose | Ambition |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
Matter has no reality apart from its form, for the real derives from form, and therefore matter moves toward the reception of form, in other words, to be released from the sorrow of absence to the pleasure of existence.
I am free to say to you, and I will stand by it, I hold, and I have said, that when an injunction undertakes to violate the constitutional rights guaranteed to me as a citizen I am going to assert my rights as a citizen to test the question and to take the consequences.
A strike on any scale is merely a trial of industrial strength, an application of the law of supply and demand, so often quoted by labor's opponents. How can a society based on free contract and free competition object to such a method of determining the comparative strength and endurance of capital and labor?
Administration | Better | Circumstances | Hope | Ideals | Law | People | Power | Public | Purpose | Purpose | Thought | Waste | Will | Work | Thought |