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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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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
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 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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
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

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