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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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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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy

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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