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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.

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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
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Attain Conduct Goal Lie Outside Right Someone Something
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
From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
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
Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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All Away Beauty Bring Cease Chiselling Crook Cut Excessive Form Glow Labour Light Make Overcast Straighten
Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Establish Godlike Goodness Shall Shine Shrine Splendour Surely Until
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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All Anyone External God He Ignorant Present So Thing Though
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
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
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
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
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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Another Beauty Being Ignorance Order Ourselves Over Own Posses Self True Ugly
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul

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