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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
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
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
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

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