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We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .

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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious

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