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Paracelsus

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
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
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
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
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
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
The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Bed Health Security Yourself
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science

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