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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.

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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
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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

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