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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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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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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