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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
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
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity
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
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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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