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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
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
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
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
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage

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