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Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

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We are more than a people.... We are of a pure blood.

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We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

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The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.

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The song that from the heart would spring
Is dead for want of echoing.

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We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.

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If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

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At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

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Jews are likened to sand: tiny grains, dry and scattered, each separate from the other.

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Human lips are now forbidden to utter His name, for being the only God, He needs no name.

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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude, the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

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Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.

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"For the commandment is a lamp" [Prov. 6.23]. And the spark which kindles the commandment is devotion.

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Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.

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It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

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[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

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Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

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"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"… Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?

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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

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I am a rainworm, buried deep
Among the oozing, slimy things,
Yet of an eagle's nest I dream,
And eagle's wings.

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Youth is fair, a graceful stag,
Leaping, playing in a park.
Age is gray, a toothless hag,
Stumbling in the dark.

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Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

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With the same bricks one may erect... a palace or a prison.... The same letters are used in Holy Writ and heretical works.

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