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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World

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