In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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What is once well done is done forever.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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