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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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
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
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
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
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
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking

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