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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 poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking

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