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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
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
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
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Philosophy Poem Understand

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