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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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
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
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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