Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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Zum Autor"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."
"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams."