Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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