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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
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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