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«I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.»
«Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.»
«Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.»
«Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.»
«Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.»
«One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.»
«THERE are three types of approaches towards the Lord; the Eagle type, which swoops down on the target with a greedy swiftness and suddenness which, by its very impact, fails to secure the object coveted; the Monkey type, which flits hither and thither, from one to another, unable to decide which is tasty; and the Ant type which moves steadily, though slowly towards the object which it has decided is desirable. The ant does not hit the fruit hard and makes it fall away; it does not pluck all the fruits it seeks; it appropriates just as much as it can assimilate and no more. Do not fritter away the time allotted to you for sojourning on the earth in foolish foppery and fanciful foibles, which always keep you outdoors. When are you to walk indoors into the warmth and quiet of your own interior? Retire into solitude and silence now and then; experience the joy derivable only from them.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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approaches, appropriates, assimilated, flits, flitting, foibles, fritters, sojourning, swooped, swoops
«The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.»
«Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as steadfastly believe»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Happiness
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approaches, deity, nearness, steadfastly
«No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.»
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