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If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

Kindness is virtue itself.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,_x000D__x000D_Be happy while you may!

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless._x000D__x000D_He speeds; we pass away!

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