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We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
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

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