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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick

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