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

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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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love 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
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
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
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap

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

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