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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Act Better Even Prepared Remain Silent Think You

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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

~Annie Besant

Topics: After Another Butterfly Chrysalis Consciousness Consists Death Emerges Higher Immortal Indeed Itself Man Off Other Outer Part Passing Process Repeated Shakes Skin Snake State

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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Away Body Built Constantly Continually Decay Every First Form Fresh Human Human Body Materials Molecules Moment Mother Passing Process Reconstruction Streaming Tiny Undergoing Up Womb

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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Against Argument Austere Celestial Class Crowds Descend Goddess Great Hatred Liberty Nation Never Nor Passion She Shouting Strong

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We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Brain Dream Filters Gained Impressed Knowledge Learn Much Occasionally Our Physical Sleep Slowly Thus Vivid

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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Agree Always Attract Become Boy Condemnation Disagree Does He Ideas Ignorant Intelligence Man Mind Narrow Ours Quick See Sign Tries Truth Understand Us Views Which Who Will Wise Wise Man

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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Anniversary Calculated Calculating Changing Dates Easter Event Festival Fixing Hero Historical History Impossible Indeed Inevitable Man Moon Myth Natural Point Positions Relative Solar Sun The History Of Very Way Year

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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Back Bad Binds Brings Chain Closely Deaths Ever Firmly Forged Good Holds Karma Our Out Rebirth Relentlessly Us Vices Virtues Wheel Which Wrought

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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Any Bodies Child Climbs Complex Eternal Faculties Fear God Greater Grows He Inevitably Light Man More Nature No Fear Powerful Provided Reincarnation Soul Towards Unfolds Upward

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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Accuracy After Beauty Body Education Emotions Express Grace Health May Mind Object Strength Train Vigor

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 1st, 1847

Died: September 20th, 1933

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