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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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After Fit For IT Must Ourselves Run Transquilty Wait
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
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Become Identical Object One Se Seen Such Vision
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Complete Each Of One Sent Soul Universe Us
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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Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Attended Drom Effective Every Hear One Receive Side Utter Word
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Antiquity Body Darkness Dogma Explate Internal Into New Pass Recognize Region Sin Soul Throughout Trait Undergo
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
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

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