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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty Itself Light Over Play Rather Symmetry Thing
But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Action Beauty Character Imnteelct Pursuit Virtue
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Every Inscribe Letter Like Moemmet Sky Star Themselves
As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Alone Blend Body Both Clean Derive Distinct Either Empty Enjoy Entirely Mode Soul Third Two
We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being Unity Virtue

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