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Our bodies are molded rivers.

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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
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True

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