There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
GIORDANO BRUNOI need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God .
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I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;
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Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity.
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.
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The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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