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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

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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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Humanity is a comic role.
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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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