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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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
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
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
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

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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