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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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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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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
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

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