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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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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
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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 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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
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

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