Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

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Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

Repetition is the death of art.

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Sir John Denham

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

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Hippocrates, Law

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

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Homer, The Iliad

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

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George Bernard Shaw

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Johann von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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King Edward the Third

Evil to him who evil thinks.

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Jeseph Joubert

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

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Hazrat Ali Ibn-e- Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermon and sayings compilation)

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

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