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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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

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