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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
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How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
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I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
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You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!
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God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
