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Character is perfectly educated will.

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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
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection

Character is perfectly educated will.

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