Grieve not that men do not know you;_x000D_ grieve that you do not know men.
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Grieve not that men do not know you;_x000D_ grieve that you do not know men.
It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Sinners think they are saints, but saints know they are sinners.
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much_x000D_ _x000D_ Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning:_x000D_ _x000D_ You better starve, than eat whatever_x000D_ _x000D_ And better be alone, than with whoever.
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.
If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]
When the well is dry, people know the worth of water. [so appreciate what you have while you have it]
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.
We know there is no progress in a straight line.
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