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

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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
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
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
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth

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