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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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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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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
Humanity is a comic role.
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Cosmos Humanity Role
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World

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