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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
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
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

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