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There is one basic cause of all effects.

Giordano Bruno

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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Accept Argument Denied End Explain Right Sophistic Understand Well
With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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Brain Luck Side Without
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
When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death.
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Being Consider Discover Immutably Neither Ourselves Substance Universe
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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Immobile Infinite One Universe
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
Of the eternal corporeal substance (which is not producible ex nihilo, nor reducible ad nihilum, but rarefiable, condensable, formable, arrangeable, and “fashionable”) the composition is dissolved, the complexion is changed, the figure is modified.
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Arrangeable Consider Corporeal Eternal Ex Formable Nihil Producible Rarefiable Substance
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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Greater Perchance Pronounce Recieve Sentence
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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Always Comprehension Divine Itself Light Man Present Reject Sense
Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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Being Essence Existence First Last Nothing Presence
Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.
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All Apprehenf Few Internal Power Say Thing Understand
I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Await Come Magnificent Pray Return Sir Trouble
All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.
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All Everything Occur Perfect Thing Unity Universe
I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell.
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Held Hold Immortal Soul
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
Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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Differently Divinity Glow Go Knew Latent Men Nature Subject Success Thing Work
The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)
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Like Other Own Paraphrase Planet Really Sky Star Sun
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
There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Center Circumference Neither Universe
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
I regard them as earth’s heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.
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Accept Cause Compelling Regard True Understood Wish
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
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
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
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Condemn Condemned Fear Greater Maybe
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. … It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
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Immobile Infinite One 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
Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties… everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.
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Alteration Change Consist Decay Difference Diversity Everything Generation Kind Make Property Species

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