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— Ali ibn Abi Talib"Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you."

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The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.
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