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Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

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Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
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
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
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
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
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World

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