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In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

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