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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you.

— Kahlil Gibran The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

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The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

The Prophet (1923)

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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