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To philosophize means to make vivid.

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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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe 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
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
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
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World

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