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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
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
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work

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