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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.

Giordano Bruno

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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Antiquity Authority Beg Faith Reject
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
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
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Father Mind Mother Time Truth
Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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Change Deform Eternal Form Incorporeal Nothing Substance
There is no law governing all things.
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All Governing Law No Thing
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
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
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
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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Being Capacity Dignity Enhold Everything Himself Smallest
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
There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.
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Absolute Aristotle Body Down No Other Position Relatives Space Taught
Whereof, how r ever obscure the night may be, I await daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night Rejoice therefore, and keep whole, if you can, and return love for love.
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Await Daybreak Dwell Keep Look Love Obscure Rejoice Return Whole
Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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Beneath Cloud Feel High More Purpose See Since Spread Wing
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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Deliver Fear Judgement May More Upon
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth

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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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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