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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

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• To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

  Ralph Venning

  Opinion

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• Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Teaching, Departed

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• All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Errors, People

  Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.99, Routledge

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• Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

  Abraham Cowley

  Lovers, Silent, Mute

  Abraham Cowley (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.320

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• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151

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• Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Hate, Believe

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• The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Teacher, Peace

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• This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Race, Knowing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• Forget thyself to marble.

  John Milton

  Forget, Forgetfulness, Marble

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.412

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• Be not afraid, though every stay
  Should fail, or be removed away,
  And thou be stript of all;
  But lose thyself in that vast sea,
  The ocean of the Deity,
  And all they cares shall fall.
  
  In death which is the most profound,
  The purest life is always found;
  Then, blindly, all forego!
  He ne're shall find, who will not lose;
  Who sinks from self, shall gain repose,
  Which none but he can know.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Ocean, Fall, Self

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• Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

  John Fletcher

  Brother, Sleep, Care

  'Valentinian' (performed c.1610-14) act 5, sc. 7 'Song'

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• If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

  Angelus Silesius

  Art, Christ, Lost

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• Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws.

  Thomas Tusser

  Law, Fear God, Magistrates

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century”, p.29, Lackington, Allen

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• Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Gone, Littles, Repent

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

  Thomas Browne

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.141

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• In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 350-52, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, XLVIII, 1922.

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• If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

  Leighton Meester

  Humility, Eye, Men

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• Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.

  Saint Basil

  Humble, Humility, Thinking

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• King of the animals — as thou hast described him — I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest — because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Kings, Children, Animal

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete".

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• Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

  Pythagoras

  Favors, Coping, Difficulty

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• Know thyself and thou wilt know the universe.

  Pythagoras

  Wisdom, Know Thyself, Knows

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