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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.

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