You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
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Zum Autor"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all."
"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."