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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

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Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun

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