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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

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Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
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
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
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
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word

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