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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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A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
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
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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 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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth

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