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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Amount Cure Poison Portion Remedy
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Art Desire Reveal Time
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Body Ingredient Name Science
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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Hide Manifestation Reveal Secret
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

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