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“At eighteen you sleep without memories.”

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Nazım Hikmet (January 15, 1902 - June 3, 1963) was a prominent Turkish poet. His poetry deeply reflected social realities and focused on the fate of the working class, hailed as one of the founders of modern Turkish poetry. more

“Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.”

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Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.”

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Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.”

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Author:D.T. Suzuki

“We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.”

Light Might Earth Joy Jesus Lord Son Blessing Praise Dear Thee Charm Boundless Mirth

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.”

Children Christian Obedient

Book:Hymns for little children

Source: Hymns for little children

“Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.”

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Book:Hymns for little children

Source: Hymns for little children

“How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.”

World May Dream Light Lines Dark Morning Growing Paint Clouds Glad Streams Silver Thunder Glowing Lilies Noon Hail Boyhood Rosy Girlhood Azure

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”

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Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

“He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.”

Father Christ Green Guides Bliss Unseen Our Father Shepherds Pastures

Author:Cecil Frances Alexander

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