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Their plans were improved with the best advice.

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... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

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Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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The road to true love never did run smooth.

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A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

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Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.

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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

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