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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
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
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself

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