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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.

Giordano Bruno

It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
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Death Dith Enchant Ever Happy Poverty Power Quick Rih Sorrow Unity
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
One only is immutable, eternal and ever endures, one and the same with itself. With this philosophy my spirit grows, my mind expands.
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Encduce Eternal Expand Immutable Itself One Only Philosophy Same
I have declared infinite worlds to exist beside this our earth. It would not be worthy of God to manifest Himself in less than an infinite universe.
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Declare Earth Exist Infinite World
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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All Doth Fill God Simultaneously Single Soul Spirit Temple Thing Together Whole
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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All Clear Indication Other Own Receive Sign Testimony Virtue
The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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Apprehend Body Entire Power Present Some Soul Substance Universe Way
If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Button Buttoned Coat Crooked First Rest Wrongly
I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn’t fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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Believe Fought Therefore Victory
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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Art Century Come Develop Know Many Science When
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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Body But End Eye Immensity Space Vanquished
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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Absent Future More One Pain Present Stupid Thing
In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark.
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Constellation Countless Give Light Planet Sea Spare Sun
God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Be God Infinite Must Too Universe
The being is altered, the fortune is varied, only the elements remaining what they are in substance, that same principle persevering which was always the one material principle, which is the true substance of things, eternal, ingenerable and incorruptible.
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Alter Always Element Eternal Preserve Producible Substance True
Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end.
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Both Concise Contrairies Foundation Masketh Origin Our Primal Reduceth Single

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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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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