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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.

Giordano Bruno

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
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
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
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
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Faith Magician Mean More Physician Truth
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 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
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
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 gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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Gem Less Philosophy Precious Understand
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
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
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
Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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Arouse Beautiful Contrary Disgrace Feeling Hate Love Sight
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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Begin Contraries End Birth Growth Middle Perfection Whatever
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
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

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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