The step you take while others are moving is only a duty, but adventure is the step you take while others are seated.
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The more we compromise with our constraints, the more we make a destiny out of them.

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The most dangerous criminal is he who buys trust with temporary honesty.

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Light and Darkness employ different tactics to dominate. Light is active and vigorous, it moves to conquer regions held by Darkness. Whereas, Darkness is passive and observant, it creeps only into domains that lack Light.

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Death and Birth constitute the same magnitude of losses and blessings to the world. When a man dies, the world is relieved of his burdens and same time deprived of his usefulness. When a child is born, he brings immediate joy to family and friends, awaiting the problems he might create for the world tomorrow.

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The best way to discipline a man is to threaten his ambition.

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Light is distinguished by darkness, for without darkness light would have no value. Just as slavery is to freedom; foolishness to wisdom; ugliness to beauty; insanity to sanity; impurity to purity; poverty to affluence; thirst to satisfaction; loneliness to activity and hatred to love. However, these are the perfect equations that make the world we live in imperfect.

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Hatred and love are both pertinent to life. It is mandatory to hate as well as to love. He, who hates someone or something, loves someone or something else. Equally, he who loves someone or something hates another one or thing.

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A mistake is a deflected accuracy.

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Night is Day's superior. When Night plots, Day executes; when Day cowers, Night covers; when Day sobs Night soothes; and when Day finds love, Night consolidates it.

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Patience without a lingering hope is slavery. Hope without a steady tussle is fantasy. Fantasy without an ending course is folly.

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Patience is strengthened by assurance, gladdened by hope but proven by time.

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The most satisfying route to life's success lies within two discoveries: knowing the value of your potentials and knowing those who are in need of them.

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Acquaintances fade into memories; memories fade into history; history fades not, but justifies recognition.

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Violence loves what words cannot repair and what silence cannot tolerate.

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When your wife sings, she needs appreciation; when she frowns, she needs a hug; when she blushes, she needs a kiss. But when she shouts at you, she needs silence and a prayer.

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If you want to right your wrongs, be enemy to yourself and some people. But if you decide to live with your wrongs, be friend to yourself and be friend to all.

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When your past irritates you, your present is surely ameliorating and your future might be bright. But when all your glories are held by your past, your present is doing but reminiscence and your future might suffer neglect.

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It is impossible not to compare yourself with others. You only fail in the comparison when you covet where others have come to without considering where they have come from.

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What a lie can obtain in a minute, truth can't have in a whole day. But what a lie would lose in a day, truth would hold for a decade.

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