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All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

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The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
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 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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role

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