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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind

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