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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

Giordano Bruno

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Believe Change Majority People Truth
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest;
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Excellence God Greatness Kingdom Made Magnified Manifest
Time takes all and gives all
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All Give Take Time
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Cadence Hammer Iron More Must Swung
I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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All Being Essence Nothing Over Particular Understand
He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
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Earth Glorify One Single Thousand World
The one infinite is perfect , in simplicity , of itself, absolutely, nor can aught be greater or better, This is the one Whole, God , universal Nature , occupying all space, of whom naught but infinity can give the perfect image or semblance.
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Absolute Aught Better Greater Ine Infinite Itself Perfect Simplicity
Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.
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Always Change Everywhere Incessed Observe Position Thing Universe
From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
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Coincidence Compas Contraries Difficult Every Other True Ultimate
Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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All Anything Include Inelf Own Soil Take Universe Way World
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.
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Call General Globe Immensity Live Single Space Vast Voidunumerable
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Ceremonies Daith Establish Fool Life Religion Rule Those World
The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Another Body May Pass Soul
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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Bridal Desire Me Urge While

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