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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.
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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
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
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
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
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe

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